153 < Chapter 26. Nothing Hard (5) >

You should have just disappeared.

You should have.

You shouldn't have to disappear and show yourself again.

All of a sudden.

· · · · · · All of a sudden.

Why the hell not?

* * *

Like Bern.

I was where I shouldn't be and the time I shouldn't have been.

It looks like it's not even in one piece.

Yeah, like Bern.

It was better not to look.

It was a thousand times better not to know.

I wanted to know why the axis of time moved and who moved for what. I followed it. I never wanted to face the axis of time again. I never dreamed I'd see you again.

- Once, he says he's going back in time.

Chase said.

One line found in an old, very old book. It was the only information about the axis of time. So I took it for granted. I thought it was gone after I used it once.

But then I looked back at it like this.

Even if I could pull out any words that existed in the world and say them out loud, I would not be able to express Kalian's feelings right now.

Kalyan's mouth opens narrowly, looking at a golden ring floating in the air.

"Ha · · · · · · · · · · ·."

A sigh came out that was more clear than anything in the world. Seeing him exhale, he was lucky enough not to give up his life, so he came out with a laughter.

Before I entered here, I finally understood why Alan was trying to ease Calian's mood by going through a few bad jokes. The moment they came in and saw that, they were worried about what would happen to Calian.

Don't be surprised, don't be shaken, I would have said a joke because I couldn't even give you that speech.

"Funny. If my brother had fed me properly, I wouldn't have seen that all of a sudden."

Khalian makes jokes, even when he comes up with a ridiculous laugh.

It means don't worry about Alan, he's fine, he's only looking at the back of Callian's head. Innocent teeth were put in their mouths without any connection to the rediscovery of the axial fragments.

"Good. Just some of them, some of them here."

And he added:

I'm glad you're a part of it.

"You don't have to expect them not to, and you don't have to worry about the same thing happening again. That's really good."

How fortunate that you don't have to expect something you don't have to do because it's only part of it.

"Some are here, so no matter where the rest is, the same thing won't happen again."

How lucky is that, too?

After all, there was nothing fortunate about Kalian himself, like this. He said it was as good as the day he learned that Bern's life had been erased and forgotten.

"· · · · · · Don't swallow it. It's all in the prince's stomach."

A Kalian whose insides melted while swallowing Silike's poisoned tea upside down. I swallowed them all without a frown in front of the others. They say it's a relief in a sound voice, but would it be different this time?

It was poisoned again in the dark.

Kalian hasn't answered for a while. Alan goes to the side right now and tries his best to see what Kalian looks like.

Kalyan spends a long time without saying a word.

Alan watches over Callian without saying a word.

I'm worried it might collapse.

"I'm fine. I have a strong heart."

It's been a while since I heard back from Kalian. It was an unshakeable, bold voice.

I knew I wasn't in a terrible mood enough to die. After seeing this, I understood that there was nothing I could do.

"What difference does this make? If we could move time again with the axis of an hour intact, how could we reverse something that was already so wrong?"

What if someone other than Bern is forgotten again?

What if someone other than Callian loses his name again?

So just close your eyes.

"· · · · · · How would you handle it?"

I didn't believe that Kalian was okay, but this is all Alan asked. I thought it would be better to continue thinking the other way.

"One is enough for me. No more."

Callian closest to the golden ring, saying something that doesn't seem to be the answer.

I thought about destroying it after looking a little more into it. Whether the axis of time was tired or not, it was to prevent him from coming back into the world again.

It didn't matter how powerful it was. The horror of turning back time had not to happen again. That was the most important thing.

- Tak!

However, he stopped without taking three steps.

It was because my foot stopped right in front of the ring. To be precise, you have to say that you were stuck in something and couldn't get any closer.

The invisible wall stands between the axis of time and Khalian. Something was protecting the shrapnel on the axis.

- Whoops.

Without it, Kalian draws his sword without a worry.

After a dark resonance filled with dark red aura, Alan picks up his shield, which he guessed was what he was thinking.

With him, Kalian wields his sword.

- Ka-ang!

A sharp sound fills the Sispanian space.

Calian's black, still invisible 'wall' that seems to shed a dreadful light, stops in the air. You swing your sword again, but all attacks are blocked by the wall.

Alan says quietly, watching Calian for a moment.

"Stop with the Black. I haven't been inside either."

Calian chews on the inside of his mouth.

It was not that there was no security. I can't get to it, but who's gonna touch it?

After all, Kalian scattered the sword Manawa's error. A pale red glow resembling the Kalian fades away.

Calian opens his mouth, watching it quietly.

"Sispanian · · · · · · · · · · ·."

A wall built on the power that Alan couldn't resist. There is only one person who can make such a device here. The Sigmund Khan Sispanian, who clearly owns this place.

"It must have been the Sispanians."

If not Serenti.

However, Kalian did not mention anything about Serenti, but only said this. God's intervention was uncertain, and I didn't have the slightest thought to put it in my mouth.

"Teacher, you've seen the passage of time in Cecritia."

"Yes, I've seen it."

When Chase tried to find out about the axis of time, he called Allen to secritia. And then Alan saw this.

"So you were fine in Sacria then, and then you disappeared when I woke up, and I don't know when, but some of you came in here."

Kalian looks down, his head hanging still. I thought fast and spoke at the same time.

"Directly or not, there seems to be a Cispanian connection. It looks like the Sispanians hid the shrapnel themselves. I don't know if it was before or after meeting me."

An empty Sispanian nest in Siegfried is a known place. This is a place no one knows about. If she wanted to hide something, but there were reasons to hide somewhere other than "her space," this place might have been considered the safest.

"Then the palace collapsed, and it was revealed."

You must allow me to erect a statue of Arsenal.

Calian suddenly pulls the pebble stone out of his pocket with a smile like this. It was the very black stone Alan said could be an artificial entity.

Shatters on the axes and stones had something in common, a letter even Khalian could not read.

When I was a Bern, I had never even noticed the characters engraved on the axis of time, but not now. I couldn't go inside the wall and take a closer look, so I was going to compare the letters even here.

"It has already been confirmed."

Alan notices what Callian is thinking.

Alan thought the same thing. Because of this, I have already compared the letters copied by Uriah. That's why he also brought up the story of the stone on his way here.

"Nothing was the same. but we've confirmed that it's in a similar format."

"Maybe it's another letter of the same letter."

"Possibly."

Callian has been silent again for a while.

Alan looks around, waiting for Callian's word. It was a carved wall of eight tales that led to the victory of the Crusade.

Only the face of 'King Cecretia' was not filled. Her nameless face is merely a contour. There was nothing engraved on my eyes, nose, and mouth.

Alan smiles bitterly at the thought of it. It may not have been for the same reason as Bern, but I also thought she had forgotten her face and name.

Soon, Callian's voice pulls Alan out of his mind.

"Anyway, we need to move a little faster now. If you didn't find it, you did. I thought I'd ask him myself."

"Are you interested in meeting the Sispanians?"

Alan asked, thinking of someone he could ask about this, and Calian immediately nodded and replied.

"Yes, I don't think we can get rid of the debris from the axes here, and I think we need to meet. Why there is only a fraction of the axis of time left in the 'past' and gone from 'present'. Make sure the rest is gone properly. It's because only the Sispanians know why."

I may not be able to answer again, but I still had to meet him. You can't cross the Seño River to meet Serenti, the symbol of life and death.

"Are you leaving soon?"

"No, after I finish this, No matter how many Movement Wizards there are, there's more urgent work to be done right now. I couldn't believe what two over-handed guys would do while they were away."

Alan smiles as he hears who the "two-handed" is talking about.

I thought the Sispanians told you to come when you're all set. Because the fragments of the axis were found here and the preparations that Kalian had to make were completely different.

"I'll have to see Randall again first."

A black pebble engraved with letters that I thought were on the axis of time. and the power that pebbles used in the tissues that they reacted to. Randall's connection to them.

As I made my determination to meet one of the two over-handed bastards, Calian said:

* * *

"Answer, please. Brother Randall, do I have to think of you as an enemy, or should I hug you too? I'd like you to tell me that yourself."

I said so.

"You don't have to tell me how much is hidden in the seal of the oath right now, so just tell me one thing."

He said the same thing.

"You keep Brissen and the king together."

Randall's mouth opens quietly, looking at Calian for a moment.

Bricen and Remain are on the same boat. Le Maine, of course, has every intention of stopping it if Randall is aiming for Brissen.

Kalian nods as if he has nothing to hide.

"We decided not to put the Marquis and the Change Bag in the same position as Brissen. I stopped thinking about having an enemy in the whole family. The Marquis, the Change Bag, and the Marquis Lennon Brisen. I'm going to get rid of those three and keep my family alive. I have somewhere I need to be."

"I wonder if that's your ego or your ego. You have no idea how difficult it is to get rid of all the heads while maintaining the power of the Brassens, and how unlikely it is to use them properly."

"I have my beliefs. He'll be fine."

Callian said that, touching the teacup with his fingers.

"If anything gets out of the hands of that corner of faith, it'll be hard to get rid of it then."

Bricen's forces are needed, but not precious. If there are any who act out of Plants' hands, we can eliminate them. It's not that hard.

pruning.

Maybe you've done too much already.

"I don't doubt the child you believe in."

He already knows that the corners of his belief are Plants, and Callian laughs for a moment.

Randall's right.

Peas are a life of compassion. I never doubted it.

Bern did not make my man well. Instead, those who entered his fence didn't suspect a thing.

Behind my back, of course I was beaten. So I know how much it hurts. Nevertheless, my person did not doubt.

"Because you trust me more."

It wasn't because I like people foolishly.

because I believed in myself.

"I'm not going down for treason."

It could be self-confidence or arrogance, but it was the same with Kalian now. So ever since I decided to work with Plants, I had no doubt that I would hate him.

"Yes, I understand."

"Now you have to answer me."

Randall replies, and Calian looks back at Randall.

Randall opens his mouth, looking at Khalian for a moment.

"Something else. I'm not after you or Brycen."

"Can't you tell me exactly what it is?"

"Yes."

"Because of the contract?"

"Yes."

That's enough for now.

For now.

Kalyan nods, making his decision.

Protect Remain from being handed over to others before destroying the axis of time while keeping Remain's life from shortening. While you're guarding the heart of the Grass-eater, you should also be guarding first brother.

All we have to do is protect them.

It shouldn't be that hard.

"I understand."

In the cold tea, Bergamot no longer smells.

I didn't know if it would not rise or if it still didn't feel. Anyway, now it just smells bitter and bitter.

"I always show my back to Randall."

It was not a friendly encounter with Randall. If we face each other, we'll have to aim for the sword.

This time, there were minor differences, not to turn away, but to protect it, but in the end, all Calian could show Randall was his back. That's the best I can do.

"Stay in my shadow no longer."

Kalyan's red eyes gaze into Randell's Maw.

"I'm dying."

I reached out my first and last hand towards the eyes of the deep blue sea that sinned deeply.