42 – Uninvited guest (7)

The reverberation of the darkness that remained thick enough to sting my skin seemed to be warning me to get out of here.

Unlike Mana, the darkness spread in the air hovers in the air without melting into the world.

Essentially, it arouses feelings of disgust just by feeling its existence, which unfilteredly reveals the sense of alienation that it is not of this world. Even though it was definitely the first time I was facing it, I already knew what this darkness was.

pagan.

It was written that the group that caused all kinds of accidents in the novel received and used this power from the god of the other world. Considering their future actions, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they would be Elena’s main enemies in the future, but that was not what was important now.

Elena is gone.

That fact alone made my head seem to turn into pure white paper.

There was no time to think about why there were traces of paganism here now. The most important thing to me now was her safety and where she was.

Barely holding on to the thread of reason that seemed to be about to break, I glared at the darkness that still gave me discomfort.

The feelings of displeasure and disgust, as well as the unknown sense of kinship felt in the darkness, made me frown. As if I wasn’t the only one who felt that way, as soon as the darkness hovering quietly in the air found me, it rushed at me like a swarm of bugs finding food.

As the darkness tried to cling to me, I raised an aura from my body.

The aura that extended from the heart instantly created a black wind and began to drive away the darkness.

No matter how much God’s power was, it was just a remnant, so it couldn’t overcome the wind created by those who entered the realm of superhumans.

In the end, the darkness was swallowed up by the aura, but still, the unpleasant sensation left by the darkness in this space was not erased.

Such was the power of foreign powers.

Absolute destruction, in which absolute coexistence with the world is impossible.

Its mere presence harms the world.

Concentrating his mind, he moved his aura towards the scars left in the space by darkness.

We must hurry up and find the owner of this power before the severed space is restored again. The aura squeezed into space at will and began to move along the twisted current. But the providence of the world did not allow it. The space that had been forced open started to close again and I was powerless to stop it.

In the end, my aura could not stand the pressure and was shattered by the cracks in space.

“Damn it!!”

Even if he tried to endure it somehow, he only realized the limits of his power each time, but nothing changed.

The helplessness caused by that eventually cut off the string of rationality.

Although I thought that Elena would no longer be with me, I never thought of her death. Even if she was to become the great wizard who would come to see the world in the future, Elena’s time had not yet passed.

But thinking that the variable I created took her life, I couldn’t keep my sanity any longer.

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Madness close to obsession towards her, which he had suppressed until now, begins to fill his head. Emotions that were not controlled released the limits of power, and the body boasting an overwhelming amount of magic power due to the blessing of the dragon radiated aura without limit.

What awoke my mind in the storm of auras that raged like a raging bull was a fact that had come into my jumbled head.

Theia.

she was still there

An ancient dragon who has lived for a thousand years, she must have superior magic skills than any other great wizard on earth. She must have a way to get me to Elena.

As hope seemed to be within reach, I suppressed the emotions boiling inside me.

It’s already reached a situation where you don’t know when it will explode like a time bomb, but now is the time to regain your reason. Just in time, Theia also noticed the change and was walking toward where I was.

“Theia.”

Theia looked at me in surprise when I called her name. Come to think of it, didn’t she reveal her name when she talked to me? I can’t remember.

She told me with a face that she needed an explanation, but I lightly ignored her words and opened my mouth.

“Theia. If you are, you should be able to trace the reverberation of the power left here. Please, take me to the source of that power.”

“Now, wait! Before that, the name! Explain the name first!!”

“I don’t have time. I’ll tell you when I’m done. Come on.”

At my words, she muttered something softly with a face that she couldn’t understand, and then, as if she knew the seriousness of the situation, she immediately began to use magic without saying anything.

What she summoned with her magic was a single butterfly.

I didn’t take my eyes off the butterfly when I passed the spot where the darkness was exactly. Since I was completely unfamiliar with magic, I just guessed that the butterfly would tell me where Elena was, and I naturally followed the movement of the butterfly with my eyes.

If I follow it like this, will I be able to find Elena?

However, contrary to my thoughts, the butterfly disappeared without a trace in the air shortly after. At that, I hurriedly looked at Theia, but instead, she was breathing a sigh of relief with a face that said it went well.

“It’s fortunate. It seems that the source of power has disappeared.”

Her words reminded me of what I had said.

Her magic was to find the source of darkness, not to find Elena. The disappearance of the being who left a mark here was an unmistakable appeal, but what mattered was where she was now, the fact that the heretic was dead didn’t matter to me at all.

I tried to find clues, but I only found out that the existing clues were useless.

Now that the person who is said to be the culprit has disappeared, there really is no way to find her. I felt like my eyes were blinded by that fact.

“Damian?”

A familiar white light came into my sight as I tried to sink into the abyss again. At the same time, I hurriedly looked ahead at the voice calling my name.

“…What the hell happened? Why are all the bookshelves broken like this-“

There was the girl I had been looking for so long. Seeing her look at the mess around her with a bewildered expression, I felt relieved and called her name out loud.

“Elena!”

***

You can feel the warm air blowing around you.

Even if it wasn’t for that, Elena’s face was already stained so red that she couldn’t hide it with her hand. Normally, I would have stopped with a certain line, but now I have no intention of letting go of her hand or leaving her side.

“Damian, I don’t know anymore…”

“It’s not possible.”

If I let go of my hand, it seemed like it would disappear just like before, so I couldn’t let go of her request.

“Come to think of it, Elena. Where the hell have you been?”

When I asked where she was, Elena silently lowered her head and pointed to a door beyond the broken bookshelves. Only then did I realize that I had a strange misunderstanding.

I must have been to the bathroom.

As a result, everything I did was nothing but nonsense, but I couldn’t undo the change it gave to my heart. It may have been just a misunderstanding this time, but there was no guarantee that something like this would not truly happen in the future.

As I pressed close to her in the form of holding her almost halfway, I could feel her warmth spreading even more intensely. Her heat, which was rising endlessly, was like proof that Elena was by my side, so I moved closer to her.

“Hmmm!!”

We turned our heads toward the source of the sound at the sound of a loud cough that pierced our ears all at once.

There, a little girl wearing a hood was looking at me with disgruntled eyes. The bookshelves, which had been a mess, had returned to their previous appearances, as if the surroundings had been tidied up again or if magic had been used.

Upon seeing her twinkling eyes, Elena seemed momentarily taken aback as if she had recognized the existence standing in front of her eyes, then took a deep breath and quickly regained her composure.

“Hey, dear. Don’t you have something to say to me?”

“ah.”

“Ah? Ah????? Ah go something! Ah go! How important that is, have you forgotten?!”

“Oh, I’m sorry. This was more important to me.”

Theia put on a puzzled face at my words.

Come to think of it, what did the name Theia mean? Reacting like that makes me a bit uneasy. Well, in any case, I had already thought about her answer, so I didn’t worry too much. I think it’s just an excuse, but 5 seconds is enough.

But she said something completely different from what I expected and made everything I prepared useless.

“…No. That’s it. You over there, that hair color and eye color. You’re Edelweiss, right?”

“Ah yes..”

“Then, please do one favor of me instead of that child.”

Shaking her head at me, she naturally turned to Elena with a sly face. I knew something was wrong with her behavior. In the novel, the relationship between her and Elena began with ‘what kind of’ request, so now I could see what request she would ask Elena.

Elena tried to stop it before she could answer her words, but Elena’s mouth was already open.

“like.”

“No… Elena! Hold on. Hold on. Elena. This is all I need to answer. I don’t need you to do me a favor.”

“Uh huh. Didn’t you already say you like that kid? But where are you going to turn your words?”

“It’s you who turned the horse around!!!”

In the twisted situation, I felt my head throb.

Elena didn’t seem to have any intention of saying no, and Theia didn’t seem to want to take what she said either.

Two people who met at a time when they shouldn’t have met.

How the resulting butterfly effect is happening, I could feel the feeling that the story was completely twisted for the first time since I was possessed here.

***

When I sent a call to Sujeong-gu, Winter Castle immediately sent a wagon in front of the store.

I still didn’t let go of her hand and got on the carriage. She didn’t say anything about the tightly clenched hands, as if she had gotten used to it by now. To be precise, it would be correct to say that he doesn’t seem to have the energy to say anything.

When I got on the carriage, Elena leaned against me with a hazy face as if she was about to collapse.

It was late, but somehow my stomach looked more tired than usual, Elena, so I straightened up a bit and lowered my shoulders so that she could lean on me comfortably.

Seeing that her eyes were about to close, I tapped Elena on the nose and asked her quietly.

“Why are you like that?”

“Ummm…? What is it…?”

“Dragon. I just don’t understand why Elena would take on something that should have been left to me.”

In the end, despite my objections, Elena agreed to accept Theia’s request. The request was not difficult. It was just a matter of finding a stone that was kept somewhere in the Tower of Dawn. But I felt a deep regret about it.

It was because he knew that the stone was actually her egg, and that Elena, who found it, awakened the egg, and that the relationship between her and Elena began.

How can it not be regretful that what could be called a kind of coincidence disappeared in an incident that was nothing more than nothing. But since Elena didn’t let me know about it, I had no choice but to look sad as I do now.

“You said that you suffered a lot because of me… Same as the situation earlier… So I think it’s right for me to solve it. More than anything else, isn’t it an opportunity to bond with that legendary dragon?”

“But… more than that, it’s just a joke. What kind of dragon has tears in his eyes just because he was slightly stabbed by an aura?”

Elena covered her mouth with a small smile, probably remembering Theia showing her hand while shedding tears.

I saw it earlier, and although the cut was cut, it was very slightly cut. The fact that no blood came out was just the same as when I was cut by paper, but why was it so difficult…

If it was an ordinary person, his finger would have been cut off, but the dragon’s scales must have been very hard. One of the treasures of the Hagiya family also contained armor made of dragon skin.

I was going to say something more to Elena, but she was fast asleep, breathing lightly.

Carefully, I take off my coat with minimal body movements. After covering her with my naked coat as a blanket, I held her hand again.

Her soft skin and warmth are caught in my hand again.

When I saw her falling asleep with a small smile on my face, I smiled on my own, but there were still unresolved questions to pass the day with this alone.

Was it really a coincidence that she disappeared on the spot?

If it was a trace enough to leave a scar on the space, it must not have been an ordinary pagan, but I don’t understand that it disappeared in that short moment. But what’s the use if I think about it like this? It would be impossible to find the answer anyway since all traces have been erased.

That’s why I decided not to keep this trouble in my head for too long.

I don’t know anything else, but there was one thing I realized for sure through this incident. What matters to me is that she is by my side, nothing else matters.

Accepting the breakup was a truly arrogant statement. While making a fuss about something that had disappeared in front of my eyes, I thought about parting with her, even though it was a family. Now that I think about it, I’m just full of energy.

Only now, the imperfect heart is completely hardened. In fact, it was supposed to be like this a long time ago, but I wonder if it was too late.

I tightened the hand that held her hand again and looked out the window.

The winter castle with the brightly shining moon on it looked particularly beautiful today.