Chapter 266
My Villains Episode 266
51. truth, separation(8)
Phoenix closed his eyes and groaned..
“You killed it.”
“……trunnion. that,”
Anger, confusion, and doubt come crashing down in an instant. The face, which had been stained red, gradually became pale..
Ellen, who had been staggering backwards, seemed to gain balance by picking up the table, but soon collapsed..
“Uh, how. how do you do that,”
Confusion and doubts welled up in his bright blue eyes. This time there was despair and fear as well..
“Heyla, said the crazy woman.?”
“……why did you do that?”
“What did Hayla say?.”
Phoenix slowly opened his eyes and looked down at Ellen..
“Why did you kill me.”
An emotionless voice and cold gaze.
Ellen held her breath without realizing it. The tears that were welling up in the corners of my eyes suddenly fell and flowed down..
“……Sorry. I am,”
“tell me why.”
“Be patient… … I couldn't stand it, I couldn't. I only tried to scare you, I didn't mean to kill you,”
Phoenix’s mouth trembled slightly..
Ellen tried to get up but fell again and approached him with knee steps..
“Poi, I, I tried to save her too. But, no matter how much I searched, I couldn't find it in the sea..”
Ellen cried and closed her eyes tightly. The welling tears flowed down my eyelids as if they were being squeezed out..
“I kept flying two, three times until I ran out of mana.……
“stop.”
Phoenix continued speaking with gloomy eyes..
“You didn't mean to do that? I didn't mean to kill you?”
“trunnion. I, I really-”
“If you really did that by mistake, your body would have washed up on the beach. But Daria was still missing until July..”
“Well, I don't know about that..”
A hint of disappointment flashed through his black eyes. Ellen, who noticed this even while crying, trembled her chin and grabbed the lock of Phoenix's pants..
“Really. Poi, please,”
“Please, please believe me.”
“I want to believe it too. but.”
Phoenix's hand was folded into Ellen's trembling hand..
“But you know you can't do that.”
“trunnion.”
“Tell me the truth, Ellen. How and why did they kill Daria?.”
The person who answered that request was not Ellen, who was crying bitterly and throwing herself away..
Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-
A low vibration shook the room..
At the sudden change, Poynix instinctively hugged Ellen. And soon, I opened my mouth in astonishment. This is because he realized that the source of the vibration was his wrist..
“This is-”
Before I knew it, a white band of light was wrapped around Poynix's wrist. It started spewing out black smoke with a familiar feeling of magical power..
“This is.”
““A dream, a dream territory?” Phoenix opened his mouth after hearing Ellen's threatening voice..
Previously, Poynix subdued and absorbed his alter ego, the Artist. In the process, the quasi-dimensional, dream realm created by the artist became his..
However, immediately after that, Poynix, who had escaped from the dream realm, noticed that the ‘Throne of the Throne Room’ had turned into dust..
As the throne, the magic tool that opens the gateway to dreams, disappeared, it was thought that the realm of dreams would also have disappeared..
“no way.”
Once a quasi-dimension was established, it did not disappear so easily. The dream realm was also preparing to open the gate again, with its entrance hidden somewhere between the owner's body and soul..
And now, the dream realm that has gathered enough magical power has opened its mouth in response to its master's call..
Wow.
Black smoke gathered in the shape of a disk, accompanied by a strange metallic sound, as if an iron ball was rolling on a silver tray. And before Phoenix and Ellen could react, he swallowed them all at once..
A strange sensation that feels like floating in space or teleported somewhere in the blink of an eye..
The journey through the gateway of dreams was very familiar, even though it had been a while..
“ O ugh '' — 丁he •
As soon as I touched the ground with a brief feeling of floating, I quickly looked for Ellen. Fortunately, he was held tightly in my arms..
“......trunnion?”
“ Ellen.”
Ellen's face was covered in tears and her shoulders were shaking slightly. As he buried his face in my arms, I patted his delicate back. My heart breaks every time I hear the sound of sniffling..
“••••••Ellen.”
“huh.”
“It's South Harbor..”
Ellen, who was crying, shook her head. And I looked around with dark eyes..
A shattered old moon, the night sea sparkling as if scattered glass fragments, a castle that is partly collapsed and partly blackened, a temporary lighthouse emitting bright light, and street stalls covered with cloth..
“O ” -—,
Ellen took a short breath..
As the master of this subdimension, I knew where this place was. This was a space where Ellen’s dream materialized..
It wasn't difficult to notice the situation. The realm of dreams is trying to tell me the truth through Ellen's dreams..
““Let’s get out of here.” Ellen grabbed my collar with trembling hands. The jewel-like eyes were torn with tears..
“no.”
I hugged him tightly and shook my head..
“I need to see.”
“trunnion!”
As if my declaration was a signal, two figures suddenly appeared on the other side of the dock..
“The night breeze is cool.”
“……Where are you going??”
“Let's go to the dock. Neither Ellen nor I will be able to see the sea for a while..”
It was a woman with red hair who was walking ahead and chattering away..
Daria, the woman who whispered love in my arms over and over again..
“trunnion. me, i-”
“quietly.”
I stroked the head of Ellen, who was trying to say something in my arms, and whispered softly..
““Be quiet.” While he was holding back his tears, my eyes turned to Daria's back..
girl floating on the ground.
Ellen of the past, wearing a brown robe and sparkling wing decorations on her ears, looking a little shorter than she is now..
The two walked along the beach and headed towards the long pier. The son-in-law was quiet, with no one around, but torches were lit here and there, so he was able to watch them clearly..
I walked slowly while holding the current Ellen..
I could clearly hear the conversation between Ellen and Daria from the past..
“I wanted to brag about how I seduced Poi with that vulgar body.?”
Ellen insulted Daria with her characteristic cold face. Daria pursed her lips and shook her head..
“I'm going to follow Poi..”
At South Harbor, our group pretended to head west by boat to fool our pursuers. But Daria knew it was a trick and that we were heading north..
“I want to be by Poi’s side just a little longer. If I leave like this without doing anything, I think I'll regret it for the rest of my life..”
I closed my eyes at Daria's sad words..
“Poi loves me.”
“bullshit.”
“Ellen, you know. Poi is Ellen.,”
“Bullshit! Dirty whore dare not know the state system.”
Ellen of the past glared at Daria with her face distorted..
Ellen in my arms held the hem of my clothes tighter and shook her shoulders..
Both were shedding tears incessantly..
That too for a while. As the salty night wind blew, Ellen of the past closed her eyes..
The distorted face became calm and the rough breathing also subsided. It felt like meditating.
“Phew.”
With a deep breath, Ellen from the past opened her eyes. The girl was no longer crying.
“that's right. i hate you.”
Ellen, who continued speaking in a calm voice, collected mana from her wing decoration. I slowly got down to the ground..
“I waited and waited for the day I could leave the city..”
While walking unsteadily, the girl stretched out her right hand..
“But, I said I would follow you.?”
“Just a moment, Ellen..”
Following the short spell, a chill swept through me. Before she knew it, Ellen had a frost pick in her hand..
“That won't work. I'm going to die.”
“Wait a minute, Ellen, no way.,”
“sorry.”
Squeak.
A piece of translucent ice flew away, leaving an afterimage and deeply grazed my thigh..
“Ugh,”
Just as Daria was about to scream after swallowing her breath. The dancing spirit lurking near Ellen flew in on the night wind and clogged her throat..
“Does it hurt? I even got scratched by that.?”
Daria's face turned pale and she clutched her wound..
My hands were stained by the dripping blood. The cherry blossom ring worn on the fourth finger also turned red. The white petals scattered with blood in them. As it fell, it was blown by the night wind and disappeared beyond the sea..
“You don't want to die either.”
Ellen walked with an expressionless face. Daria gasped and crawled towards the direction where the petals had scattered..
“If so, I promise. I will disappear forever before our eyes like this..”
Ellen pulled out the second frost awl. In the past, her magical power level was lower than it is now, and she was already running out of mana..
“Then I'll save you.”
Was it because I suddenly got cut on my thigh and became suffocated? Daria seemed confused. She looked around for the precious landmark and then turned to Ellen..
“how?”
His expressionless face became pale due to rapid mana consumption, and even his eyes were cold. So Ellen looked like an inorganic object..
Daria, who was out of breath and silently pounding her chest, watched the scene and suddenly jumped away..
with a plop!
When Daria jumped into the dark sea, Ellen immediately threw a frost pick at her. There was only a splash, and Daria did not rise again..
Instead, the light green wind that was blocking Daria's neck returned to Ellen..
“goofy… … . Chase after you!”
Even after being chased, the spirit of dance just swirled nearby and did not move..
Ellen gritted her teeth and was about to cast a spell. A torch flickered on the other side of the dock, and footsteps were heard..
“this.”
The expressionless face cracked..
Embarrassed, Ellen hesitated for a moment, then used her remaining mana to activate the opening ceremony for Aelo's Day..
I succeeded in avoiding the guards, but I ran out of mana just before I reached the ground after taking a detour far away..
with a plop!
“Oh my! Phew-”
Although she was frantic and struggling, Ellen was a girl who was far from athletic. The more I played with my arms and legs, the deeper I sank. Ellen was pushed by the waves and reached the beach just before she lost consciousness..
“Huh, huh, wow!”
Ellen, who had been coughing up sea water for a while to catch her breath, suddenly raised her head..
“……Oh no. If Poi knows……
I muttered something as if I had lost my mind, and closed my eyes, hiding myself in the collapsed embankment. After recovering for a while, he used his wing decorations to fly up into the night sky..
After a while, he returned to the embankment, refilled his mana, flew over the sea again, and hid himself under the embankment.…….
While the similar process was repeated, Ellen's eyes became more nervous and her chin became more tremble..
When Ellen of the past sat down under the embankment, trembling in despair and fear, a black disk flew from somewhere..
The black disk, no, the dream gateway silently swallowed the current Ellen and me. the dream is over.
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