36 – #08. Direction (8)

Can we really be saved?

If I hold her by her hand, if she follows her to save her world.

To atone for her world, to atone for her. As I continue to atone for and atone for, will one day all the sins I have committed become faded?

One step.

By the time I went a little further and grabbed her head.

“…… Mister!!”

In an instant, I felt warmth from the nape of her neck.

Liquid.

Is this also blood? Did I make someone else die?

“Mister, wake up! Please, …… Please.”

“…… Le, you… ?”

The voice of a crying girl.

Wasn’t it the blood that soaked my nape?

“Oohhhhh!!”

The ground rumbles.

I don’t know what the situation is. Her feet trembled, and she turned her head, forcing herself to hold on to the moment she almost lost her balance.

“I don’t know what happened, but this isn’t it!”

“…… This criminal. A parasite that only survives by sucking the blood of others. A worm intoxicated with desire. A monster that devours the corpses of others. Devil. Are pests that only disturb the human world stand in my way again?”

“It’s a criminal and it’s Nabal!!”

Cecilia slowly raised her head.

Her cute face was crushed. The place where one of her beautiful jade-colored eyes had been had sunk and was vomiting bright red blood, and the bridge of her high nose had already crushed her shape beyond recognition.

But that’s only for a while.

She noticed that her face started to glow white, and soon after, her normal face was completely restored.

The hole in the stomach and the wounds that opened there.

“What is it? Why are you living like that? You always ignore human ethics and trample on morality. Why do you criminals who carelessly crush the values of others always hold me back?”

“…… Saintess, saintess. There’s a reason Seongguk bastards sang like that.”

Jack smiled dejectedly.

Cecilia’s wounds were soon sutured or disappeared, and before long she returned to her usual Cecilia. Now, if only her expression returned to her smiling brightly, it would be so perfect that she didn’t even know this had happened.

She was frowning and angry.

It’s clearly anger no matter who sees it.

Who is that anger directed at? Jack in front of you? But her gaze didn’t seem to be looking at him. Her eyes are empty enough to make you wonder if she is aiming for something a little farther, shapeless.

“Is the saintess a great number! Ok this is it Let’s do it.”

“The Salvation of the World. I’ll start by cleaning you.”

Jack ran.

Running, running again.

Even though it was blocked by the pure white light, he punched several times, and if that didn’t work, he moved again, aiming for Cecilia’s gap.

But it doesn’t mean anything.

Meaningless. Useless because it’s worthless.

No attack could pierce Cecilia’s defenses, and after barely approaching, she collapsed with a single gesture of her hand and fell far away.

“Seo Seo. See. Because your Cecilia is now, for the first time, using her will to harm humanity. Criminals in human skin, slaves of desire. …… I will incinerate the walking corpse.”

No words came out.

Her head is about to explode.

My headache won’t stop. Why? It hurts. Because her heart ached, and her heart was pounding. Even that sound is disturbing. Just a headache, a headache, a headache. The head, the head, the head, the head, the head…….

…… Ah.

Her head exploded.

“Uncle.”

Why did you jump?

Couldn’t we have had a little more conversation?

I really loved you.

You who saved me when I first fell into an unknown world. I love you and have received a lot from you.

Caring for others and affection for sympathizing with others.

That was a gift you planted in me who was empty, and it was hope.

That’s why I also wanted to practice that warmth. I wanted to tell someone what I received from you, and I wanted to save others.

At first, I thought it was good intentions, but was that also my desire?

“Please, mister… ….”

“…… Lenny.”

You are always a nuisance.

My salvation.

A girl who will not fall in love. I thought I saved you because of my greed, but in fact, it was always me who was saved by your detachment.

“You can’t stop here.”

“…… What can I do?”

Jack gets back up and fights.

But that’s also meaningless.

Cecilia was called a saint and took on the role of healing others, but even so, if she didn’t really know how to fight, she wouldn’t have earned the title of hero.

I can’t compete.

She is an unknown being that transcends humanity.

There is no way a normal person can stand up to such a person. Mea would have been able to do that, but in a situation where she didn’t even know why Cecilia was here, she couldn’t rely on her.

Her head is about to explode.

I think it will break. It feels like it’s going to explode and scatter the fabric, and nothing comes to mind. It feels like walking alone in the dark.

That brings unbearable nausea.

“…… Do not give up.”

The girl gently hugged my neck.

The sound of an explosion. In this place where the sounds of battle never ceased, Lenny was a weak child who was far from all of that. She warmly hugs me and whispers that such a child is now.

“I believe in you.”

“Weak.”

“…… Mister?”

I am weak.

Nothing can be done.

It has been like that since I was in modern times.

I was giving up on everything. I gave up on approaching someone, and I gave up on living hard. It was to give up the possibility of the future, and furthermore, to run away for fear of standing at the crossroads of choice.

Then what can I do here?

She has already trampled the future of many people with this ability. It deprived them of their possibilities and suppressed their freedom. A greedy coward who tied the country to one human being, what the hell is going on here…….

“I am weak.”

I simply told the truth.

Jack is still beaten and knocked down, but he can’t even go to rescue him.

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Don’t get up again.

Thank you so much, Jack. Even if you are an outlaw operating in the shadows, I will respect you, and I am grateful for what I have received from you.

So please don’t wake up again.

If you wake up again, then Cecilia might really kill you.

“…… This, psycho b*tch.”

“It’s cloudy.”

Cecilia looked at Jack, who got up again.

Eyes with no emotion.

She was no longer angry. She would have seemed more human if she had been angry. If that was the case, I wouldn’t have been so afraid or sad that my body was shaking like this.

“No responsibility, no mercy. The only thing there is is an ego obsessed with desire. It’s not called alive. It’s just a walking corpse roaming the ground, greedy for more.”

“Do we look like corpses to your eyes?”

The saintess tells Jack that she barely stands still while her legs are shaking.

“Not worth it. I can’t see any twinkling lights, and I can’t even feel the darkness. I can’t even feel the vitality, and I can’t even feel like an animal that just covets food day by day.”

She denied all her desires and desires. She

She stipulated that the resulting crimes would defile this world, and she had no doubt that if everyone kept order and suppressed greed, she would lead to a more righteous world.

“It is neither white nor black. You are just gray specters. It’s a collection of tenacity that only thinks you’ve lived on your own, and that’s nothing but harm to others.”

Jack didn’t answer that.

Just get up and get back into position.

“I don’t know about that.”

“…… So you’ll always be just a corpse. The way to think, the ideal. Just dead people who have forgotten how to walk towards the right thing.”

All of her words went round and round and stabbed me in the chest.

Actually, among the people gathered here, I was the most greedy person.

If Cecilia said she hated criminals, then I was the first one she should smash her head with.

“…… Mister.”

“Lenny, I… ….”

“I trust you.”

Based on what.

“…… I don’t know why you hate yourself so much. Why do you say you want to die every night, why is your self-esteem so low?”

The bandages covering the girl’s eyes were wet.

Her tears kept flowing, but Lenny, unable to wipe them, managed to lift her head and stretch her arms toward her blade.

“Still, I have no choice but to trust you.”

“I will save you. I begged Cecilia to do something, so please make it happen. I’m fine, so if only you guys beg for help…….”

Lenny shook her head.

She then stretched out her hand and felt her chest. She moved it up slowly, as if trying to grasp my body, and then her small hand reached her face and carefully groped her above the mask.

“No.”

“…… Why.”

“I can’t do without Mr. It can’t be without uncle. I thought of you as family. Without that family, I am alone again.”

If you ask Mea for that…….

She thought that far, but she remembered that Mea also did not know whether she was alive or dead.

Here she gives up everything and this child is alone.

The life I am responsible for. Atonement was something I had to achieve someday, but Lenny, whom I wanted and brought, was also a life I had to be responsible for.

“…… You’re not telling me to give up.”

“I trust you.”

“You don’t tell me it’s okay to stop.”

“Because I believe.”

Said Neira.

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Don’t stop. Don’t get caught up in the past, just move forward.

I don’t know what the future will be like.

What she didn’t know originally, she couldn’t know even more because there were so many things she was carrying on her shoulders. I was still obsessed with the past, and it was hard to even live in the present.

“There is no point in living alone.”

It’s sad that I can’t see your eyes right now.

“So, please live together.”

It’s a pity that I can’t read your expression.

Leni’s words were too harsh for me. You still force me to hope. It was the same with Naira, and with different intentions, Mea is the same.

People who force tomorrow on me, who is not worth living.

Why?

Is the future that sweet? To the point where you have to forget everything about the past and move on? Is it so great that a human who has no will to live aims for it?

I just wanted to atone.

I wanted to take responsibility.

“Please protect me.”

Being that kind of person, I couldn’t ignore Lenny’s words.

I felt as if my head, which was a jumbled mess, was clearing up little by little.

“…… Okay.”

Far away, Jack was still avoiding Cecilia’s attack, somehow catching her gaze.

Anyway, he felt sorry for him too.

If it wasn’t for me, I could have tried it in a different way, but I’m sorry that I made you go through this after picking up something like me.

So.

The responsibility for that must also be on me.

“Cecilia.”

So I stand up and call your name.

“…… Mr. Seo?”

“I can’t go with you.”

The future you want is not the future I envision.

My future is opaque and still only dark, but I was certain of that. My head still hurts and I’m sick of it, but I still have to stand up.

“Yes, yo?”

A pure white light emanates from Cecilia’s feet.

My intuition that the essence of the miracle of the saintess would be revealed here and now.

I don’t think I can overcome an opponent that even Mea couldn’t do. Jack was also helpless like that, how far can a guy like me go?

Feeling helpless, I took a step forward.

“I wanted to resolve it through dialogue until the very end.”

“I know.”

“I was sure Seo-nim would understand.”

“…… Sorry.”

If it’s atonement in a different sense, I’ll do it.

If you wanted revenge by taking my life, I might have held out my neck to you, entrusting you with the future of Lenny and the others.

I’m sorry for that, obviously, but I was able to accept death with joy.

But your ideal is different from what I hoped for. The future Cecilia hoped for was very different from the future I hoped for.

Where we are heading.

I know I don’t deserve a future like that, but Neira told me to look to the future and move on.

Even a guy like me was told to stretch out his hand toward the future and be greedy.

However, you denied all human greed, desire, and desire.

That’s why I can’t join your ideals.

It looks like you still have to be a little more greedy.

“…… I didn’t want to do anything to Seo with force.”

Looking at Cecilia’s miserable smile, I think.

She said her head was about to explode.

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