The Fiancee Who Betrayed Me Is Obsessed With Me

80 – Balance (2)

“Giggle…” Gyahak… !”

Yuna opened her eyes. Instead of the flickering of consciousness that had continued until now, I actually regained my vision and opened my eyes.

I woke up painfully, as if Ben’s face, with his unfocused eyes wide open, was still in front of me, as if my voice was still muted and it was haunting my head.

My body still didn’t move well. Rather than that, it would be more accurate to say that I couldn’t move.

Even if I tried to move my muscles even a little, I felt tremendous pain.

Although my senses had returned, my physical condition was not normal. And also the spirit.

“You’re awake.”

A clear voice comes from next to me.

It was a voice as transparent as dew on leaves at dawn.

I tried to turn my head in the direction of the voice, but I couldn’t because of the pain that immediately followed.

I barely moved my eyes to the side to find out the identity of the voice.

“L… flaw… ?”

White skin and long ears.

With its unrealistic beauty and unique attire, anyone could see that it was an elf.

“is it so. Elf.”

What is the situation? Obviously, my last memory is of a burning Ben… No, that’s not reality.

The final reality was that I sobbed and ran away as I saw Ben leaving.

It was natural for him to die, but when he came to his senses, he was alive and there was an elf sitting next to him.

Did they step forward because the balance was broken? But then, what was the reason he was saved?

There were many questions that arose in an instant, but I couldn’t voice them out loud.

My head was still very dizzy.

“I’m still not feeling well.”

Seeing Yuna trembling, the elf poured something into her mouth.

“Please rest a little more.”

Just like that, my consciousness began to fade again.

*

How many times did I wake up and pass out repeatedly?

Yuna’s body had recovered significantly as she repeatedly woke up without knowing why.

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I still couldn’t get out of bed and move around, but I could talk and move around a little.

“… “Where are we?”

And at some point, I woke up in good physical condition.

Yuna, realizing that her throat was feeling pretty good, asked the elf who always fed her something.

“Elia. “It’s a city of elves.”

“… “Do you mean a great forest?”

“is it so. “That’s what humans call this forest.”

The elf obediently answered the question.

Elf. Beings called high elves of the great forest.

Another name for them is Guardians of Balance. It is said that they have the mission of protecting the balance of the continent when it threatens to break.

It was a story perhaps like a legend. A story that is now forgotten because they have not been seen for a long time.

“balance… “Is this broken?”

Yuna asked.

A major forest is a place where humans cannot enter in the first place.

It was clear that lying down in a place like that had to do with balance.

“The person who came back from the dead is the first to ask that question. “Aren’t you curious about what happened to you?”

“… “Then please tell me that first.”

The elf smiled kindly and spoke.

Yuna didn’t necessarily refuse because she was more curious about that right now.

“You used powerful magic again and again to force the frozen circuit to circulate. “At the end, it went wild and used up all of its remaining magical power.”

“It means you were watching everything.”

“We watch everything that happens on the continent. Anyway, you fell to the point where you couldn’t come back to life. Because the circuit was already powdered. Of course, the body was damaged to the point where it was difficult to regenerate.”

It was as he said. It was not strange for him to die, or rather, he was in a state where he would never be able to survive.

Yuna knew that even at the time.

“But if you use elf technology, regenerating a human’s mana circuit is not impossible. It’s been about three months. “Have you come to Elia?”

“It means you’ve been unconscious for three months.”

“that’s right. Of course, for us it is only a moment.”

Yuna tried circulating mana through the circuit as a test.

The mana circuit was definitely back in good condition. However, the body had not yet fully recovered, so physical activities were limited.

However, once the circuit was restored, the body was recovering quickly around the circuit.

“so. “Why did you save me?”

What was important to Yuuna was not how she lived.

Why didn’t he just let himself die? I was more curious about why he was saved.

“For balance.”

“balance?”

“is it so. “The fact that you are alive is pure and balanced.”

“If we were to maintain balance, shouldn’t we have prevented that war from happening? That war is what breaks the balance… ”

“well. “Balance is not that absolute.”

The elf used magic to move wooden sticks and rocks in front of Yuna.

“Now, there’s a wooden stick on top of a round stone, like a scale, right? And what would happen if you put stones of the same weight on both ends of a wooden stick?”

“… “The stick will remain balanced and not fall over.”

“That’s right, balance. “It would be a perfect equilibrium.”

The elf took two rocks of the same size and placed them on both ends of the stick.

Like a scale, the stick stayed straight without tipping over to one side.

“But what if we put one more stone on one side?”

And when the elf added more rocks to one side, the stick tilted in that direction.

“The balance is broken.”

“hehehe… no. “The balance was not broken.”

“yes?”

“This is also a balance. Leaning towards the heavy side. “It is a natural providence.”

“… So what breaks the balance?”

“It’s like this. Very simple… “It takes one action.”

The elf lifted the tip of the stick on the leaning side and made it straight again.

Although the weights on both sides are not the same, the sticks are balanced.

“Forcibly going against the laws of nature. “That destroys the balance.”

“what… ”

Yuna thought it was nonsense, but at the same time, she understood it a little.

In short, it seemed to mean that if you try to go against the established rules, the elves will take action.

Why are you saying simple words this way? If a royal minister had said that, he would have been beheaded right away.

“… So does this mean that the war was just a balancing act, and that there was someone who tried to forcefully break that balance?”

“that’s right. And for you to disappear like that, it was also out of proportion. “We had no choice but to intervene because it was not a matter of breaking a small balance, but a huge balance.”

It meant that his death was that important and that it was against providence.

It was an incomprehensible logic, but Yuuna accepted it in moderation.

My head hurt too much to think.

“I roughly understood. So you’re saying you’re going to restore me and send me back?”

“When the time comes. It will happen. “Nature moves to find balance on its own, but nature is still trying to achieve balance.”

“So, they will be sent back once the situation outside is resolved.”

“You could say that too.”

There will probably be many problems caused by his disappearance and the end of the war.

And what the elf is saying is that if those problems are left alone, they will be resolved by finding a balance, and then Yuna will be sent back.

Anyway, it meant that I could rest now. Yuna relaxed her neck and closed her eyes.

“… “You said you were watching everything that happened on the continent, right?”

“That’s right.”

As soon as I closed my eyes, a thought came rushing to me.

Ben. What happened to him? Could it be that he was caught up in his own magic and died?

And the pain of that moment comes again. Emotions and thoughts about the fact that he was alive that I still haven’t been able to properly process.

A single tear flowed.

I wanted to see him and apologize to him. My heart ached so much.

I wanted to go back to him.

Yuna’s mind quickly returned to the moment she lost Ben.

“Ben… Do you even know what happened?”

“Are you talking about the man who drugged you?”

“that’s right.”

How much did he hate himself to give him such drugs and conspire with the empire to plan such a war?

It hurt so much that he hated himself so much.

But what was more painful than that was the fact that I might not be able to see him anymore.

Even though he hated himself, it felt like he would feel better if only he could see him.

“actually… I don’t know everything about him. “Because the person who breaks the balance I was talking about is probably that man.”

“Ben… ?”

“As I said before, even the smallest action destroys the balance. “He was an unobservable imbalance.”

What kind of complicated story is this again? In short, doesn’t it mean that you don’t know their whereabouts?

Even though I knew he had abandoned me, I desperately hoped he was still alive.

Of course, it was not confirmed that he was dead. In some ways, there was a higher chance of him being alive.

However, such vague expectations could not erase Yuna’s depression.

Rather, it made me fall into thinking about him again and began to erode my mind little by little.

“Then let’s get some rest. “You will be able to eat some food soon, so I will give you this medicine until then.”

Yuna did not respond, but instead closed her eyes.

It didn’t matter what the food was.

The elf gave her the medicine she was accustomed to, and Yuna fell asleep again.

A few more weeks passed, and Yuna was now able to function normally.

I still couldn’t go out of the forest. It was because the balance the elf had spoken of had not returned.

Since elves’ magic is famous, Yuna spent her time practicing magic in an environment with abundant mana.

Thoughts about Ben continued to torment Yuna.

Sometimes I still felt like I was going crazy, and because there were no people here like Helia who could kill me at will, I even hurt myself.

He even ripped off his own flesh with his fingernails, went out into the forest, and fired magic at random.

Destroyed and destroyed again. yourself. destroyed itself.

Still, I didn’t feel better. The nightmarish days continued just like before I met Beryl.

However, if there was anything better, it was that the environment of the Great Forest was different from Helia.

The forest was a good place to give peace of mind and body.

Clearly, little by little, Yuna’s destructive behavior decreased.

Although I still haven’t stopped self-harming.

There were also efforts from the elves.

Helping her didn’t seem out of balance.

Either you endure it day by day, or you fail to overcome it and destroy it. Either endure it or eventually break yourself again.

Those days continued. Yuna’s voice still couldn’t be uttered and it was horribly disturbing in my head.