5 – Reason for life (2)

“Ughhhhh Elizaveta…Elizabeta…”

It was at that time that the cries of the emperor’s desperate search for his wife continued.

-Koo-Goo-Gung… .

heard

Probably, if it was normal, if there was no heavy rain, and if he was not trapped in his own sorrow, the sound would be enough for the emperor himself to notice.

I saw it when I looked up.

A large boulder falling towards the emperor’s head was certain to be seen by anyone.

“your majesty!!!”

The worry was short and the action was quick.

The moment you discover the existence of a rock falling freely in the air,

Because my doll was already going to the Emperor.

‘Damn it.’

Instinctively, my body told me.

If I had just one sword, I would be able to bounce off a stone of that size even in this state.

But the problem is that I can’t see anything like a sword even after washing my eyes.

Perhaps, if you look for it, you will find it. The swords of the fallen knights who fell before us.

However, I was not given the time to rummage through the dirt and find the knight’s sword.

I had no choice but to throw myself at the emperor and roll on the ground with him.

-thud!

“Ha…ha…! Are you okay, Your Majesty…”

“Hey, hey…! Ah…gwa, it’s okay… thank you…”

Fortunately, as soon as we got out of the spot with a very narrow gap, the stone crushed the spot where we were and collided with the ground.

At first, the emperor did not understand the situation and tried to shoot at me, but soon found a stone and said thank you.

… However, the emperor’s expression is strange.

Even though he escaped from a near-death crisis, his expression showed no emotion.

how do i know that?

Well, if your memory is not a baby goldfish, shouldn’t you remember it?

Because the expression of Finn, who gave up everything to me a while ago and disappeared, was no different from the current emperor.

An expression of despair, having lost the reason for living and waiting for death to come.

So now the emperor, he seemed to have forgotten the reason for his life with the death of his wife.

‘… Such a sick bastard. Have you forgotten what we came here for? Emperor Alexei!’

That’s why I grabbed the emperor’s shoulder and said.

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Just like Finn, who held onto my shoulders and conveyed his will, his will like a mountain.

“Your Majesty!! I’m very sorry for the Empress, but you shouldn’t do this here!!”

“…Yes, how safe are you right now, making fun of that mouth…!”

“If you stop here, what will the princess do!!!”

princess.

you have to save her

She has an incurable disease and must save her, who is destined to just wait for death.

That is… Because that’s what we came here for

that fact,

We reminded him of our purpose. Please, with the hope that this daughter-in-law will come to her senses.

… Still, we haven’t achieved the purpose we came here for.

“…It was, it was…Lily.”

Fortunately, it seems that this daughter, the foolish emperor, still had one more reason to live.

“Okay… if you act like this and lose even Lily… that’s what you’ll be embarrassed to see Elisabetta in the future…”

“That’s right. Your Majesty, since you’ve lost your mind just a moment ago, I’ll support you.”

“Ah…yes, I’m sorry…you seem to only see ugliness from earlier…”

“It’s a word. It’s a great pleasure if His Majesty, the Sun of the Empire, is well.”

The moment I tried to stand up by supporting the emperor, a sharp pain came from my back.

“Keuk…!”

“…? Finn? Why…Fin, you…!

“Yes…?”

It was only then that I felt it properly, a hot pain that thrilled my spinal cord.

It seemed that when I rolled over with the emperor wrapped around me, I hit a rock somewhere and my back was torn.

“This level is fine… it’s not a fatal wound…”

Yes, the experience of going through countless wounds is telling me.

… This is a guy who can’t even wear a wound. So don’t be rude.

It’s not yet time for you to indulge in the sweet luxury of rest.

“But you…”

However, the emperor, unaware of such a strong will of ‘Pin’, just looked down at me with worried eyes.

What… The sight of a child much younger than himself smiling that it was okay even as his back was brutally torn and blood was dripping,

As an adult, it might be something that makes you feel indescribable.

But though my body is young,

Because my mind is a full-fledged adult.

And compared to the years of patience I’ve been through and the experience that Finn has entrusted to me, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of times I’ve experienced this pain, it couldn’t break my will.

I looked him in the eyes to mean that it was really okay.

“…Lily, I think I now understand why your daughter insisted on you, a commoner.”

* * * *

It was the time when he and the emperor were about to set out to find the alchemist once again after collecting the body of the empress.

– Splat, splat, slap.

The sound of someone walking across this muddy field in my ears.

At the same time, the voice of the woman who witnessed this horror resounded in astonishment.

“Huh?! What is this! Carriage? Because of the landslide…? Why are there so many deviations from schedule today…”

A person walking down a precipice-like street like this… ?

With a strange suspicion, he turned his head and began to observe the woman’s behavior carefully.

Then I saw a backpack as big as my body, and countless flasks that were tightly packed with belts worn around my waist and legs.

and… .

“…Iridescent hair.”

“Huh? What did you say? Finn?”

That unique feature is said to be the only one he has in this world, so there’s no way he’ll forget it.

I finally found it. Alchemist of the Eastern Mountains.

* * * *

… Now, the doubts I had so far have been answered.

I’m definitely in a situation where I can’t move because I’m paralyzed.

Even so, I experienced the miracle of being rescued before my life was lost.

With everyone but me dead and no one even knowing where we were headed,

How the hell did anyone know our location?

and another one.

How on earth did the investigators find out that the alchemist we were looking for was temporarily sheltered from a landslide?

If he had listened to him, he would have been able to somehow obtain the elixir on the spot.

The answer was simple.

After the alchemist discovered us and reported to the imperial guards,

He is an alchemist, but he found it while taking refuge in a landslide. It had disappeared, leaving behind a testimony.

‘Fuck… If that’s the case, even if we had avoided the landslide and arrived, we wouldn’t have met.’

what a joke of fate

In order to save Lily, the moment we faced a landslide like this, we must be pushed to the ground and fall to the ground.

‘I don’t know what the hell this writer’s intentions are… .’

Are you telling me not to save Lily…? .

Or is it that these hardships and adversities can be saved only by overcoming them? .

‘Anyway, with this… The Elixir has been secured.’

* * * *

“…? Elixir? I don’t like it?”

There was a time when I thought that too. fuck.

* * * *

“Wow, didn’t I say I’d give you all kinds of wealth and status if you wanted it! But why the hell would you not hand over the elixir!”

“Yeah…is this supposed to be handed over to someone who deserves it?”

“Now, qualifications? What are those qualifications! What the hell is that bastard’s qualifications that even I, the emperor, cannot meet!”

The emperor was overcome with evil and vomited his anger.

Even though there is an elixir that can save her daughter, she is going crazy because she can’t get it.

The emperor felt the rage boiling to the point where he could see the wriggling veins on his forehead.

Even so, he never thought of ordering the frail alchemist to give him the medicine, or taking it by force.

‘That guy looks like that, but he’s someone who can kill about 10 knights by himself. Don’t be too quick to provoke. If I ever get upset and run away from here, everything is for nothing.’

It was because the attendant who informed him of the alchemist’s location had told him so.

“Qualifications… First of all, you are not… Qualifications… Qualifications… Huh?”

“All, you…?”

The alchemist glanced at the emperor with a disconcerting expression, then stopped looking at me and gave me an interesting expression.

“…You have something very interesting in your body, right? You fake guy.”

fake.

When I heard those words, my body trembled greatly.

In a way, I, possessing the world in this novel on Earth, am a fake. In a way, it’s because it’s a being that’s close to a foreign substance.

“…You’re joking around a lot.”

However, there should be no overtly agitated response here.

Wouldn’t that be a clear demonstration of the thief’s inability to gamble?

“Hmm…Well, let’s do something like that…so…you seem to have some level of qualification…what do you want to do?”

“yes?”

No, he just looked at me and said fake things and all,

Do I qualify now?

“Instead, it’s not perfect…you’ll have to pay some price, for example…about the size of your left eyeball?”

“The left eyeball…?”

“Yeah, I’m not saying I’ll take it away at all, I’ll give it back to you the next time you see me…”

“Take it.”

“uh…?”

At least the left eyeball, if you want to take it, take it.

As long as you give me this eyeball and the elixir, I will gladly give it to you even if you take both.

When I readily agreed to her offer without hesitation, they both started looking at me like crazy at the same time.

… Yes, ‘two’.

“Now, now…what did you say? Eyeballs…?”

“Are you…really going to be okay? Cytocalcification…you don’t even have it. But you’re going to give up your eyeballs? So easily?”

“…That much, no… He’s a person I’m so thankful for that even my eyeballs aren’t enough.”

The high ground is right in front of you. But do you think it will stop because of just one eyeball?

My two eyes finally seeing her not hurting… No, now it’s just one eye, but… .

Even so, even if only one eyeball was left to see her… .

You can see that she is healthy.

You can see her happily running around.

she… .

‘Finn, I mean… I want to go to a place called the sea someday. The wide expanse of the sea… I want to try swimming there’

… Like you.

You can see her dream come true.

You can see her doing what she wants to do.

… More than that, what more do I need?

That kind of me, I’m really happy about that… Seeing the sincere expression, the alchemist immediately said,

‘What’s with all these crazy people?’ I let out a short sigh as if I wanted to say.

Then she shook her head as if she was dumbfounded.

“Haa…yes, do as you please. Alchemists are the ones who always keep their words, so there’s no help.”

– Yes.

The alchemist who came close to me before I knew it,

As soon as her palms blocked the vision of my left eye, the sound of torn veins echoed through my skull and into my eardrums.

I wonder if an alchemist enough to make an elixir is an alchemist, and in the blink of an eye my left eyeball was pulled out.

At the same time, the feeling that something hard is filling my eyeballs instead.

“…First of all, I put the prosthetic eye in. To others, it will look like it’s moving normally, so there’s no need to worry about that.”

“…thank you.”

“It’s the first time I’ve pulled out my eyeballs and heard a thank you, I was more surprised than that. He didn’t groan…? Doesn’t it hurt?”

The alchemist asked me, raising his eyebrows.

Looking at me, my head full of thoughts of being able to receive the elixir.

“…Not at all.”

Pain that will end if you endure it for a while. What hurts at least one eyeball?

That’s what I can say because I don’t know the real pain. I can say this because I haven’t seen anyone who is really sick and wants to die.

truly heartbreaking,

I can only say this because I don’t know the pain that makes me want to tear my heart apart with my own hands because my heart is so stuffy.

Took.

A flask containing an iridescent liquid was placed on top of my hand.

“Now, this is the elixir that I promised. It’s an elixir that not only completely cures cell petrification, but also increases your magical power like most wizards, so handle it carefully.”

Elixir.

It’s a real elixir. An elixir as described in the novel. It’s a real, real elixir.

I’m short of breath.

I can’t hold back the joy that seems to fill my heart, and hot tears run down my cheeks.

You can save her with this. with this… You can get her out of that hellish incurable disease.

… I have been able to repay the grace and love I received.

“…Thank you very much…thank you…thank you…really….”

From the depths of my heart, I feel Finn’s soul, now part of me, also resonate with my emotions.

… okay.

Because you, too, are Finns.

You, too, must have been hoping for this sight for a very long time… .

So, for today, let’s forget all the gruesome past and rejoice, us.

And to my, Finn’s sincere thanks, the alchemist sneered and said to me.

“…Okay, I just made a deal as an alchemist. I don’t know how precious he is, but seeing him smile even after his eyeballs are plucked out like this… I think he’s a really precious person. “

‘this time’

Surprised by that one word, I looked up, but she had already disappeared.

“…Unbelievable.”

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one surprised by her sudden disappearance.

The emperor was also making a surprised expression with his mouth open as he looked at the place where she was.

But soon, the emperor regained his composure and looked at me.

“pin.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“If you return to your true nature, I will surely grant whatever wish you want. Even if…”

“…?”

The emperor hesitated for a moment. He seems to be agonizing over whether it is really okay to say this.

Soon thereafter, the emperor keuheum! He coughed and said to me.

“Even if it’s an irreverent wish to want Lily, I promise to do my best in the name of Alexei Ekaterina.”