31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 588)
It's already been a month since Ur met Han So-mi and returned to Pandea..
Immediately after his return, he destroyed the mechanical device he named Misery..
Grumbling about being an idiot and a pathetic bastard.
It wasn't like him, but now it seemed more like him..
he changed.
Either in a good direction or in a bad direction..
“I've been busy with useless tasks, so I've got a lot of backlogged work. The most urgent thing among them is... Is it this way??”
- This place is just fiction, there's always war..
- Humans are ugly! Oooh
- trash!
It's madness.
Madness began to appear in his eyes..
“Why?….”
Why did madness, which had not been allowed to visit for a thousand years, reappear?.
In this universe... What happened to snowfall?.
or… I wonder if someone is planning something using madness again..
Confusing.
Sigh…
he looked up at the night sky.
One star that dyes the sky red.
“Eragon… Even though it came without any sign, this is the first time I've seen it..”
If a star that size were to crash into Pandea, something unprecedented would happen..
“…I have to stop it.”
He opens the door and steps out into the world..
* * *
In Pandea, there is a legend..
There is a legend that if you approach the white tree, a huge world tree located in the center of the continent, you will be cursed..
Legends sometimes had exaggerations, but this was not the case with the legend of the White Tree..
In fact, there are many people who ignored the warnings and went there and suffered disaster..
The corps that tried to traverse the tree itself faced great trouble, so it can be said that this legend is still alive and well..
As the situation was like this, no one approached the white tree..
A very long time… A place that has been banned because of an incident so big that it reminds people of the legend once someone forgets it..
A pilgrim was approaching where the tree is now..
There were more than one pilgrim who tried to approach the white tree under the pretext of asceticism, so it was an incident that occurred once every few decades..
Jeopuk…
Jeopuk…
The pilgrim did not hesitate in his steps, as if he had no idea whether such a legend existed here..
Jeopuk…
The white tree is at the top of the mountain he climbs. If he climbed a little further, he could reach the white tree..
but…
Stand tall…
Someone stopped the pilgrim.
- No more, you can't climb the white tree.
They were pure white guardians..
The pilgrim answered them with a heavy voice..
“I have to get up here. Will you please get out of the way??”
- you….
A voice filled with regret flowed from the pilgrim's mouth..
“old… I came to meet my friend.”
The guardians looked at each other and hesitated. Because I realized who the pilgrim was and what the soul was like inside his shell..
Sigh…
- …Let's meet. Maybe this too is fate.
The pilgrim smiled and walked up past them..
Jeopuk…
Jeopuk…
Finally, the pilgrim reached the top of the mountain where there was a white tree..
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
A pleasant wind created small vortices in the fallen leaves..
The curse... does not exist.
Yeah, there's no curse here.
It's just a legend created to protect the white tree.
Seed of the morning, seed of the night.
Two beings who created the wondrous white tree.
The white tree stands tall and protects all beings on this earth..
In this way, it led to the prosperity of a new world..
Pilgrims are different from other invaders who coveted the power of the white tree..
His concern is not the power of the white tree..
There was no way I wanted power maintained through someone's sacrifice..
The seed grows and becomes a tree, and the tree grows and bears fruit..
“…You came just in time..”
What he wanted was the fruit of the white tree.
fighting…
Couuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-!
As the pilgrim adjusted his power, two fruits from the white tree fell to the ground..
Jeopuk…
Jeopuk…
Pilgrims approaching the fruit.
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…
The magic power in his hands broke the fruit’s skin..
Jeokjeok…
So bad so bad…
Kwajijijik-!
The skin of the fruit shattered in an instant, like cracking dry ground..
And, the pilgrim was silent for a moment..
Inside the fruit, it was empty..
“…….”
As he was staring blankly at the broken fruit, someone spoke to him from behind..
“no way! Not funny! I have to at least pretend to be surprised.!”
“sister… Well, I told you this prank wouldn't work..”
“What do you think! It's been a while, right??”
The pilgrim slowly turned back.
A fairy with red hair and white hair braided separately like a crown..
Likewise, a fairy with blue hair and white hair braided like a crown..
People who seemed to appear in fairy tales were smiling with their arms crossed..
“okay… It's been a really long time, Jamard..”
Seueuugh…
The pilgrim took off his hood..
Protruding tusks and a scary look.
And to a gigantic size.
The pilgrim who visited this place was Jamad..
After a long period of training, he regained his past memories and strength..
He came to see his old companion, the Twin Knights..
It was a conversation full of laughter, but in fact, there were other emotions behind it..
It's sadness and longing.
Jamard spread his arms slightly..
“Old friend.”
He grinned and hugged the twin knights with both hands..
“Ugh! Broken back!”
“Let go! … I'm warning you!”
Jamard finally finished his troubles and returned to his original place..
Now he is at ease.
The twin knights in his arms stopped moving and asked.
“Everything… It's over?”
“…okay.”
Karen cried at Jamard’s words..
“Relief… thank god….”
“…….”
“All is well..”
“There was a tough fight. but….”
Jamard responded with a cool smile..
“I got over it in the end.”
“Ugh….”
“You did it, Jamard. and… snowfall.”
When Snowfall's name came up, Jamard's face quickly hardened..
“…jamard?”
“Come to think of it, the snow didn’t come together? How much time has passed since we fell asleep?”
Jamard... It was as if he had become frozen while standing, unable to continue his words, and then he began to cry with difficulty..
“Snowfall... left.”
“…what?”
“what is that….”
“Carrying all the burden... It became an umbrella to protect life from fate..”
That's definitely….
“Like the choice you made.”
“…lie.”
“It's all true..”
“no… No, that can't be possible.….”
Karen's body was shaking violently..
She starts to sob with her whole body..
Her crying hardly calmed down.
“Then why... You woke us up, Jamard.?”
“…….”
“Are you saying everything was put back in place thanks to that guy’s sacrifice? But why….”
Jamard said firmly..
“What we get is half freedom..”
“…….”
“At least that's what it means to you and me who are involved in this fight..”
“That means….”
“will fight You have to fight. next to him.”
he asked the twin knights.
“I intend to continue the struggle.”
“Even though it would harm the freedom I had gained so long ago.?”
“True freedom comes from struggle. Leaning on someone is something I don’t want to do. and….”
Laughing bitterly.
“The arrogant guy forgot and left this body behind..”
Karen has stopped crying now..
“me… Can you help me??”
the twin knights ask.
“…What should I do first??”
“When do you plan on starting??”
* * *
“Let's go together!”
“The road is a bit rough. Have you ever lived in a place like this, Jamard??”
They have traveled a long way and are in a new place. On the trip, Jamard talked a lot with the twin knights..
“Hehe… Heaven? I want to go.”
“Although it was heavenly in name, the sight I actually saw was nothing short of hell..”
“……That's about it?”
“I guess it was because I was pushed into that situation..”
They traveled on horseback and enjoyed the trip itself..
Karen's playfulness continued even while moving to avoid the rain..
She imitated a frog that came out to catch the rain..
“Look, here's a frog! Buu-! What do you think, they look alike?”
“They don't look alike at all.”
“That's a harsh review.!”
“Give points for effort.”
“Thank you so much! Tsk….”
Karuna picked up a frog from the side..
“Sister, look at this.”
“huh?”
“frog. boo whoop-!”
Karuna hit back at her joke..
“Phew… What is that!”
“Pfft….”
The twin knights looked at Jamard in surprise..
“…I'm laughing now?”
“Can't I smile??”
“no… It's not that though.”
No one would have guessed that the day would come when Jamard would laugh at a lame joke..
The soul of life is engraved like an imprint even if it enters the cycle of reincarnation, so it hardly changes even after reincarnation..
Just getting rid of your old and worn-out body and getting a new one..
Life simply does not remember it, so it considers reincarnation itself as a new birth..
In contrast, Jamad, or transcendental people close to him, are no different from before reincarnation because they recalled the memories engraved in their souls through practice..
In other words, Jamard was not reborn through reincarnation... he himself changed.
Big events have a big impact.
A big shock changes a lot of things.
The change that happened to Jamard is just one of them..
“I'll tell you in advance, Jamard, don't do this. Because you won't smile.”
“…That's a shame.”
“Hi-Hi… Anyway, the weather is nice.”
“…I'm in the middle of avoiding the rain.”
“I just like it. just….”
Shoot aaaaa…
The three looked like drowned mice, but were smiling brightly..
“Everything… good.”
“…….”
“It feels like I'm back to the old days again. … Is it strange??”
“no, it's not strange.”
“I thought about it when I fell asleep on the white tree.”
Karen said a little embarrassed..
“When you wake up... Everyone will be there. every… I'll tell you that I waited….”
“…….”
“Well, that's right.”
Jamard said after rising high into the lead..
“Arrived.”
“…I wasn't listening at all?”
“I heard that, but I tend to focus on reality rather than complaining..”
“Complaints! just… I'm thinking about this and that..”
Karuna asked Jamad..
“But why did you come here??”
“Do you know where this is??”
“Of course I don't know.”
“Of course you don't know.”
When they both answered at the same time, Jamaard explained..
“It is a sharp rocky mountain..”
“ah… that!”
“This is my tribe that served Tancrid, Mother Earth... It was the home of the rock molars. Well, it's a story from the past, but.”
“It must be different now?”
“It's different, because history has changed several times. This mountain also changed hands just as often. but….”
Jamard tapped his temple..
“In the process of going through several reincarnations, I was born here..”
“why is that?”
“It was fun. As I recalled, I realized that even around that time, there was a tribe that worshiped Mother Earth settled on this sharp rocky mountain..”
“Jamard, you must have been in that tribe too.?”
“Yes. I couldn't remember it at the time, but.”
Karen, who had been thinking deeply, tilted her head..
“But why is that?”
“In the tribe, there was a ritual. The ritual calls upon their protector, Mother Earth..”
“…Is it possible? I knew how far it would be?”
“That's how it should be, but... There's nothing you can't do. 'Cause she's the biggest and fastest thing in the world.”
When I waved my hand at the top of the mountain, something flew in the form of powder..
Karen and Karuna couldn't take their eyes off the magic they saw for the first time..
“…….”
As Jamard performed the ritual while muttering, the powder slowly took on color and rose into the sky..
Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss For…
“This….”
Soon, an aurora appeared in the night sky..
“You can see it and feel it anywhere.”
Tuk…
Tuk…
“…this.”
Suddenly, rain started to fall.
Shoot aaaaa…
“…This is also a ritual?”
“No, I didn't expect this..”
“…….”
As if there was a hole in the sky, the rain suddenly poured down hard..
It's heavy rain..
“…Wouldn't it be better to get out of the way??”
“…Maybe so.”
It was then.
Crying-!
Three people staring at the sky, watching the lightning strike.
However, what was hoped did not happen.
Mother Earth was nowhere to be seen in the sky..
“This ritual is not wrong?”
“why do you think that?”
“If it's a tribal thing, wouldn't it be hundreds of years ago? The owner of this mountain must have changed several times during that time..”
“You are right. but….”
Jamard laughed..
“She will remember. Although the owner of the mountain has changed several times,….”
Crying-!
“There was always only one Mother Earth.”
Whoa whoa…
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-!
The mountains and rivers began to tremble..
All nature stepped aside and trembled..
“This….”
“okay….”
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-!
A being that did not appear in the sky.
A huge ancient dragon slowly emerges from the bottom of a cliff.).
Compared to Tancred in its heyday, it is several times larger in size..
The three are overwhelmed by the wings and atmosphere that seems to be studded with stars in the sky..
Together with Ur, a unique being who escaped reincarnation.
Mother Earth, who has lived for a thousand years.
“Mother Earth….”
“…….”
Shoot aaaaa…
The dragon just looked down at Jamard indifferently and did not react..
however.
“Tancia, indeed… It was a long silence.”
“…….”
“I remembered everything. Your loneliness... finished.”
With those words, the dragon's face distorts..
- Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu….
“Let's go together.”
It didn't even take a single breath for the giant dragon to turn into a tiny child..
Tansia jumps up and hugs Jamad, who opens his arms..
“Ahhhhh, uncle! You remembered me!”
- Hmm… By any chance, do you know my name??
- Are you Tansia??
- …I haven't thought of it yet.
In Jamad's memories, Tansia pretended to know him several times, but unfortunately, he couldn't think of her at the time..
The twin knights hugged Tansia..
“Tansia… It was Tansia..”
“You have grown wonderfully, Tansia..”
“Argh! Where are you going now? Nana… Now I'm scared of losing everyone!”
Even after a thousand years have passed, her disposition remains the same..
She is the Mother Earth, whom everyone in Pandea respects, but to the three of us, she feels like nothing more than a child..
Just like back then.
Yeah, just like back then.
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