Chapter 294
“Do you know what it’s like to live a monotonous life without any stimulation for thousands of years?”
“……”
“And now, such a huge stimulus is placed before me, so defenselessly.”
“What on earth are you-“
Roina pushed Lutan away with all her might. This time, he was pushed away as she intended.
“What on earth are you talking about!”
“Why? Is that not allowed?”
“Hah, how you live is up to you, I guess. I know you have the power to do so. Enough to easily defeat me. But.”
Roina grabbed Lutan’s collar, making him look straight into her eyes.
“If you live without contemplating how your life affects the world, it’s no different from being dead.”
She was someone who had personally thrown off the shackles of slavery.
“It’s no different from saying you’ll become a slave to life’s shackles yourself!”
That must be why. Why she was so angry.
Roina, without realizing it, shouted vehemently and then gasped for breath.
“…Is that so.”
“Yes! How can you not know that, when you like to dominate the situation like that? Why are you living as things go?!”
“……”
Roina grabbed Lutan’s collar, and Lutan, still held, seemed to freeze for a moment. Ureureung- A faint rumble of thunder echoed in the distance.
“Live while properly facing reality.”
With those words, Roina released Lutan with a tak, as if shaking him off. He remained silent as she did so.
Kukung-
It was then. The ground shook suddenly. Roina, unable to maintain her balance due to the sudden tremor, fell onto Lutan, and Lutan, without realizing it, reflexively grabbed her.
“Wh, what is it?”
“-It’s Ryuhyeon’s doing.”
Ryuhyeon’s doing? This earth-shaking? Roina widened her eyes in disbelief and looked at him.
“Because it can be covered up as my doing. It’s okay to bend the rules of the world a little.”
“Is that… possible?”
“Yes. It’s difficult, but possible. I think that’s why he gathered sacrifices.”
“Gathered sacrifices to do what?”
“Prepare to destroy the world.”
“Huh??”
Roina was so surprised by those words that she turned to look at him. She couldn’t have misheard, right?
“No, what is he trying to do by destroying the world? And you know that and you’re just letting it happen?”
“To him, the world is a huge prison. He can only be free by getting rid of it. It’s a shackle he’s trapped in because of his own mistakes, though. And I have no obligation to stop him.”
Kukung- The ground shook greatly again. Roina clung tightly to Lutan and shouted.
“The destruction of this world wasn’t in the plan-!”
“Ah, seeing that the future exists a thousand years later, it seems like this event fails.”
“What do you mean, ‘it seems like it fails.’! Do something!”
Lutan openly made an annoyed expression, but he didn’t refuse Roina’s words. He teleported to the sky above the island while holding Roina. Faintly, it sounded like he said, Well, now that I think about it, the destruction isn’t a good thing for me either.
She felt the cold wind and clouds made of water vapor touch her cheeks. Roina squeezed her eyes shut and then opened them. The sea was entirely stained crimson, and the sky was dark.
“Wh, why is this happening? Why are these colors…”
“It seems like he’s doing something a bit big this time.”
“Big??”
“He’s twisting the rules. Is he planning to tear through the restraints and emerge?”
“What does that mean?”
Lutan held Roina and quietly looked down, explaining.
“Ryuhyeon is a huge snake that circles the circumference of the world, constantly eating the world’s waste. Including the very end of his own body.”
At those words, Roina, dumbfounded, said,
“The Ouroboros myth…?”
She didn’t expect to hear this in a place like this, but the story was similar to the myth she had heard in her previous life.
“Ouroboros? I don’t know about that. Anyway, it seems he’s trying to escape from that endless punishment and manifest in this world.”
“You said he’s planning to destroy it?”
“He probably will destroy it. He’s planning to create a new one.”
“No, what is…”
It seemed that this was the reason she had come to this distant past.
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