Solo Swordmaster

#899. Please answer me one thing

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It was a flower garden.

The sight filled with mysterious flowers that I have never seen even in Quetzalcoatl’s artificial garden where there are all kinds of plants and flowers is truly superb.

It was a sight that even an immortal who has lived for eons or a celestial god would be fascinated by.

that buck

But he’s not even surprised.

I was not impressed.

As if you’re used to it.

I just moved slowly.

Along the bottomless river that crosses the endless flower fields.

If this flower field is mysterious and beautiful, the river is calm and strange.

I can’t even hear the flowing sound.

It’s not dark without the sun.

It can be seen even through the cloudy fog.

It’s clear, but nothing shines through.

The river, which seemed to flow out of a stuffed landscape painting, had the power to attract attention in a different way from the flower field.

If you look at it, you will inadvertently throw yourself into the river.

I didn’t know if it was normal. It is a river

that began to flow

with human history… no, from a distant past, and will continue to flow forever.

A place that everyone in the world wants to know about, but is afraid to see.

It is a place where anyone can come easily and must come at least once, but it was infinitely difficult to return.

But live a long life.

Because I’ve been through all sorts of struggles.

He continued to go to this place where he had already come several times and was familiar with it.

A day passes.

months go by

A few tens of seconds stop.

…for over a hundred years.

Not taking a sip of water, not eating anything, not taking a single moment of rest.

After such a long and distant journey that even immortals would faint from exhaustion, yet so short and simple that even ephemera would feel light.

he found

A river that flows quietly.

A little girl crouched down on a boat floating in the middle of it, hugging her knees.

“—Repair.”

flinch

very low and quiet.

But in this quiet river and flower field, I heard that voice so clear.

slowly.

The Indian girl in the feather hat looked up.

Then, looking at the white-haired man standing quietly by the riverside full of flowers, his eyes trembled.

“…Teacher male?”

It’s like I can’t even believe it.

Or maybe you don’t understand.

A girl staring blankly at him.

The running repairman opened his mouth again after a long time.

“Unknown… Why are you here…?”

“You are asking something strange.”

fed up

after a light laugh.

Limon said calmly, holding the girl’s dazed face in his golden eyes.

“Of course I came to see you.”

“No no no no. Not natural. This is not a place to simply come to meet a disciple.”

Suri, who ran his horse, shook his head and denied it.

No, it had to be.

This is a place that is difficult to even call a dream, and a place that even sword masters can’t help but fear.

…because it was the threshold of the underworld.

* * *

Where do dead souls go?

The answer is that even the gods vary greatly depending on their religion, from Heaven and Hell to Hades Helheim, the underworld, and so on.

Even the dead did not know it.

So, here’s a curious fact.

Even though each religion speaks of the afterlife differently, it is curious that there is an overlapping part about the entrance regardless of the East and the West.

Nether.

Styx.

Jordan River.

Lethe and Styx, etc.

The part where the boundary between life and death is divided by a river.

Maybe that’s why.

this moment.

Why did he and she meet over the river?

“What can I do? Our sleepy disciple doesn’t even think about waking up, so I have no choice but to come and wake him up.”

“…”

In a dream, she is invincible.

So instead of waking up from the dream.

Rather, it digs beyond the bottom.

The boundary between life and death that grudges without a soul can never reach, no matter how dreadful and gigantic they may be.

The teacher, who had come to find a disciple himself, shrugged his shoulders.

And instead of her usual sleepy face, she held out her hand to the girl with an indescribable expression.

“So it’s a repair.”

“…”

“Let’s go back.”

As if a lost child had come to meet him.

Is it because Limon’s calmly reaching out his hand at the riverside was so natural?

The running repairman, who was staring blankly at him, stretched out his hand toward Limon without even realizing it, forgetting that there was a distance between them.

No, I was trying to stretch.

Dismissed!

“…!”

The moment your hand crossed the boat.

A black thunderbolt pops up.

My stomach is throbbing with heat.

If the boat hadn’t rocked as if it would sink at any moment.

Due to the excruciating pain, the running repairman pulled back his hand that had been stretched out and lowered his head.

And at the end of staring blankly at the black tattoo that glows viciously even with a half-split on his abdomen and the bottom of a boat with cracks everywhere.

He lowered his head helplessly.

“impossible. I can’t go back on my own The male master returned alone.”

“…that’s right too.”

a little bit sad

He agreed.

The running repair is a being that has already returned from the dead.

It was the power of the spell and the restorative function of the matrix that kept her in this world.

But that also meant that she was still bound by the grudges of the Spirit Beasts who managed the spell and matrix.

That boat is her prison.

Instead of holding the running eagle to this world, it was a chain that bound her freedom.

Even if she got out of here, it was also the reason why she had no choice but to become hostile to Limon again.

“But you don’t have to give up just because it’s repair. If you want to go back, there are many ways.”

I couldn’t have known that fact.

Still, he did not withdraw his outstretched hand.

Suri, who ran while looking at his golden eyes calmly looking at him, closed his eyes.

Then, as if he was crouching down, he buried his head between his knees and opened his mouth quietly.

“confession. I have something to apologize to the male teacher.”

“What apologies are you talking about?”

“truth. The reason I used my dream was the grudge against the spirits. But I was the one who accepted that grudge.”

small and nimble.

But honestly.

Listening to the confession made by the running repairman.

Limon opened his mouth after a short silence.

“-Know.”

Was it because it was unexpected?

A flinching running repair.

he gazed calmly.

Even if he is in a dying state, he is a sword master.

Especially in the world of dreams, there is one reason why the grudge of the spirits was able to permeate so deeply into her dreams, which exercise absolute power.

In the end, it was already expected that it was because she herself gave her permission.

And…

“That you, who seemed indifferent to humans, actually hates humans.”

like a cow chicken.

at a distance from humans.

She was living in the wild.

However, if you really have no interest in humans, there is no reason to avoid them.

Yes.

In the end, running repairs were hated.

A being called a human who destroyed the fallen spirits that he picked up and raised since he was a child, and pulled him out of the paradise called Matrice into a cruel reality.

The reason why the grudge was able to use the nightmare was because it brought out the hatred for humans that had been hidden deep in indifference.

“…question. I don’t understand. I am the evil of mankind. A hindrance to the male master. There is no reason to save.”

If he knew that fact, why did he jump directly to the boundary of life and death to save himself?

Looking at the running repairman making a confused expression as if he didn’t know at all.

Limon closed his eyes.

“Yes, you may be right.”

The sword master who hates humans is a time bomb that never knows when it will explode.

He was more dangerous than any villain in that he could destroy the world at any time.

That’s why the running repair disguised his indifference to hide his hatred, and Billy poisoned her because he noticed it.

And Limon couldn’t deny that fact itself.

He is the protector of mankind.

Because it was a being that cut the harm of mankind.

However, I couldn’t do anything that affirmed that Suri’s words were right.

he made a decision

that buck

“…Teacher male?”

at the sudden sound of footsteps.

She raised her head, buried between her knees.

Then, he looked at Limon, who suddenly started to walk, with curious eyes, and opened his eyes wide without realizing it.

“Teacher Male!”

But Limon did not stop even at her screaming screams.

Where there are running repairs.

In other words, I just stepped on the calm river.

And so, the moment his feet touched the surface of the river, which was as clear as a mirror but heavier than a swamp.

Chambang.

The sleep is fluctuating.

The river sucked him in.

It is the call of death.

Evidence that he crossed the boundary between life and death and entered the underworld in earnest.

But he neither hesitated nor retook his steps.

He only opened his mouth quietly as he continued to step onto the turbulent river to devour the immortals of immortality.

“Suri, even though you hate humans, you didn’t harm them, and even though you hated reality, you didn’t deny it.”

“Rather, you did your best in your own way to live together in reality by helping humans as much as you could.”

“If there is anyone who thinks that you are a harm to mankind, I will stake my sword and declare that they are wrong.”

“Even if it is you who thinks so.”

At first, only the soles of the feet.

Then to the lights.

beyond the ankles.

The suction power gets stronger with each step.

At the end of continuing to move even while feeling that death is approaching.

widely.

“So Suri, don’t give up on your life.”

across the Gireko River.

After arriving on the boat floating in the middle of it.

Limon patted the head of the girl who was looking up at him with a bewildered face as if she were seeing a dream and continued talking quietly.

“If you wish, I will make your wish come true.”

“…What does the question mean?”

“It’s a simple story.”

It wasn’t until she felt the gentle stroke of her hair that she finally realized that this wasn’t a dream.

To the disciple who asked in a daze.

The master smiled and replied.

“It means to be my bride.”

“…!”

Maybe because it was so unexpected?

The running repairman, who had widened his eyes wide and stiffened as if he had been slapped on the back of the head by Gandhi, asked blankly after a while.

“check. Master male seriousness…?”

“Your master never jokes about things like this.”

“…question. why?”

“well. To put it bluntly, I also want to faithfully follow Master’s teachings a little bit.”

“…?”

“It’s not that there aren’t other reasons, but you don’t have to worry about it. The only thing that matters is that I sincerely want to make you my bride.”

Dori as a teacher.

whether from the eyes of others.

Whether it’s his conscience as a married man.

Get rid of all that trivial stuff.

Although he hated humans, he faithfully followed his teachings throughout his life and did not deviate from his path even after death.

Looking at the girl who could not be left irresponsible, not only as a teacher but also as a man.

Limon asked quietly.

“So, repair, answer me one thing.”

“…”

“Do you want to have my child?”

pounding.

He came back from death because he only wanted to meet a mate he loved and have a child, but in the end he couldn’t love a human.

So give up everything.

I tried to cross the river of death.

It was only at this moment that I saw it.

Before being a teacher and a human being.

His serene gaze at himself as a male courting a female.

feeling the beating heart.

she finally realized

this is what you wished for

It is a feeling called love.

If only she didn’t know, the fact that the mate she wanted to have a child with was already decided.

…nod.

“That’s it.”

As soon as he realized that, he saw the girl who involuntarily nodded blankly, and smiled quietly.

Put down the hand that stroked your hair.

clutching her little chin.

led to himself

So soft and slow.

Even so, Suri, who ran through the hands of an extremely strong male, could not refuse.

Like that….

Sreuk.

On the river of death, the two lips overlapped.