Chapter 296
In the middle of the island, Lutan and Roina, floating in the sky, were enveloped in a brief silence. Roina seemed too surprised, while Lutan just seemed bored.
“…Lutan. I have a question.”
“What is it?”
“Are you okay with the world being destroyed?”
Roina, still held in his arms, stared intently at him. Lutan, seemingly pleased just to be in contact with Roina, hadn’t let her go.
“…Yes.”
“Why?”
“……”
“If the world is destroyed, nothing will remain. You’ll die too. Wait, don’t tell me…”
“……”
“Do you want to die?”
“…Yes.”
Roina abruptly grabbed Lutan’s collar and pulled him closer. Lutan’s eyes widened slightly as he was pulled by Roina’s hand.
“Why?”
“……”
“You’re alive with such great power. So why?”
“…Because I’m bored.”
“…Just for such a reason?”
“Do you know the emotions I’ve felt living for thousands of years?”
“……”
“It could be loneliness and solitude. Also, what else can I do besides this kind of mischief? I only have the hollow role of protecting the world. In this state, there’s no meaning in living.”
Roina, still holding his collar, listened blankly to Lutan’s words. For the first time, Lutan’s eyes were filled with intense emotion. Anger. It was anger. Anger at himself.
“No.”
“……?”
“Why is there no meaning in living? The moment you do something yourself, your meaning is created. There’s no one who has no meaning in living. Just sitting idly like that is just a hollow pretense of laziness.”
“What is…”
“Do you want to deny it? Fine. I don’t know anything about you properly anyway. It’s natural that you want to argue. But if that’s the case, then live. Live, even if it’s just to argue with me, and do your job.”
“……”
“Because that’s living.”
At that moment, kugung- the ground rumbled again. Roina, surprised, looked around. There was a long, torn wound in the sky. A torn wound, that seemed to be the only way to describe it.
Black darkness filled the gap in the long, torn scar-like rift.
Roina felt a sense of deja vu there.
“Ryuhyeon.”
“You recognize it, as expected.”
“What on earth is this?”
“As I said, it’s Ryuhyeon’s doing. He’s trying to tear through this world and squeeze himself in. Even though it’s originally impossible. It seems to have become possible with the continuous consumption of sacrifices.”
“Consumption of sacrifices… Then all the people who have been offered as sacrifices until now.”
“Ryuhyeon ate them. It’s just a guess.”
“And you just let him do that. Foolishly.”
“……”
“What was so painful? Is death a joke to you? Enough to let him kill you? You’ll probably be the last sacrifice.”
“……It doesn’t matter.”
“There’s no way that’s true. You stupid fool.”
Roina, without realizing it, harshly criticized him. The image of him being eaten by Ryuhyeon a thousand years later came to mind.
“No way. I’ve decided that won’t happen. I’ll do everything in my power to stop it, so watch me.”
Roina, gathering the hem of the one-piece dress she had created with magic, stepped away from Lutan’s embrace and onto the air. She could do that much. Glaring at him, she stood on the air and spotted a figure rushing from the sea.
“Jason…!!”
“It seems I’m not the foolish one.”
“What do you mean?”
“I deliberately dropped you off far from the island, but you came crawling back on your own.”
“Is there a reason why he shouldn’t come here?”
“Can’t you tell from that imperfect rift? Ryuhyeon is looking for more to sacrifice. It seems he’ll be able to fully manifest if he devours just one more individual.”
At those words, Roina bit her lip. There was no point in telling Jason not to come now. He had quickly closed the distance during their brief conversation and had already reached the shore of the island.
It was then. Black, dark tentacles stretched out from the rift and shot down towards Jason and Nova. Roina hurriedly summoned wind blades and severed the tentacles.
Only then did he acknowledge Roina, and a grotesque voice came from the darkness.
[You’re interfering with me. You can’t be the Golden Dragon, who are you?]
Roina hesitated for a moment but said anyway.
“Roina.”
[A woman? How unusual. There shouldn’t be anyone among humans who can use this level of magic. Golden Dragon, did you teach her?]
Both Roina and Lutan remained silent at those words. Roina didn’t know how to tell the truth, and Lutan was simply too lazy to answer him.
[Huhu… It doesn’t matter. I’ll just kill and devour that human woman too. Soon, I’ll devour you as well, Lutan, with my own hands.]
With those words, black tentacles poured down towards Roina all at once.
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