NOVEL NEXT chapter 40
My Beloved Uncle (1)
“Ahahahahaha! Blaming the deceived person? Unforgivable!”
Crash
The shadow in the form of a human behind Alice swung its massive hand towards the man.
The man raised his hand protected by a strong aura to block the attack.
“Die! Die! Die!”
Crash crash crash
As Alice wildly swung both hands, the giant shadow struck with consecutive punches.
“I anticipated this.”
The man gnashed his teeth.
“I was prepared for this.”
The man on the other side clenched his hand tightly.
It was not easy to see the person you love genuinely despising you. It was even more difficult to endure it, considering all the pain, suffering, and torment they had endured together.
And it was even harder to see them crying and grieving, thinking that they had been betrayed.
“Die!”
The shadowy figure raised both hands and struck fiercely towards the man.
Crack!
As smoke filled the air, silence descended.
“…Sir?”
Alice called out to the man.
Whisper.
Golden lines appeared on the shadowy figure’s massive hand and arm.
“What is this? Is this all you’ve got?”
Clang!
As the shadowy figure shattered, the man emerged from the midst of the smoke.
Brushing his bangs aside with one hand, the man gave Alice a wicked smile.
“You’re so weak. If this is all you’ve got, killing you won’t be a problem.”
Could it be that the man was playing a joke?
Could it be that the man had some reason for doing this?
Could it be that he wanted me to find out something?
Because she loved him, Alice, who had harbored a fragile hope, couldn’t help but feel the coldness in the eyes of the man looking at her.
“Ah-ah-ah-ah!”
Kwooooooosh
An enormous amount of shadows converged behind Alice, unlike anything she had seen before.
In the dark country road of a night without light.
The abundant darkness allowed the fragments of demons to exert more power than usual.
Koooooong
A shadow of a completely different form appeared.
It took the shape of a balrog with a dragon’s head, surpassing the simple form of a devil.
-Woooooaaah
The shadow balrog roared.
The man unknowingly knelt down on one knee due to the influence of the demon’s aura.
“It goes according to plan… but it possesses a power beyond imagination.”
He, who had received the aftermath of the aura head-on.
Even though his body was capable of surpassing walls, he couldn’t move.
“But.”
Thud
His entire body was enveloped in his own magical power.
“I must move.”
A method of utilizing magic power without considering the consequences.
Thump.
The man’s body began to burst open in various places.
Once again, he stood upright.
Though still weighed down by the pressure emitted by the demon within him, he took a step towards Alice.
“I cannot fail.”
A single chance to save Alice from the demon,
and from a world that seeks to exclude her.
Failure is not allowed.
-Dieee!
The Valk, overwhelming with a pressure that would make any human worship just by watching, swung his fist at the man.
Yet the man stood straight, staring at the fist.
The man squeezed out all the magic power he possessed.
“Not enough.”
But the amount of magic power he had was far from sufficient compared to what he wanted to achieve.
“Then, everything I have!”
The man’s body began to gradually wither away.
His arms and legs shriveled one by one.
His face and skin turned pitch black.
He was converting all of his life force and vitality into magic power.
“Huaaa!”
Bright.
A small bead shattered in his grasp.
A mysterious and sacred energy flowed through his hand.
Ku-gwagwagwa.
The fist of the approaching shadow Balok, ready to strike him.
The man pulled back his right fist slightly before thrusting it forward again.
Kwa-aaah.
The fists of the demon and the man collided.
“aaah!”
“Haaah!”
The screams of the girl, closing her eyes in sorrow and covering her ears, and the cries of the man pouring out everything he had, overlapped.
Jjejeok.
Starting from the point where the man’s fist made contact, Balok’s fist began to split.
And the sacred energy that flowed through the man’s arm entered into it.
-…! Can’t be! Ah, no! Wh-why!
Through physical contact, the man connected to the demon could hear the demon’s startled voice.
“…Hmph.”
‘Did it go in well?’
Using a specially prepared artifact, he bound the curse of the ancient demon’s fragment under Alice’s control.
That was the method the man had sacrificed everything to attempt in order to save Alice.
– Human! How dare you, mere mortal!
The remnants of the evil spirit were bound by the power of a man.
It was enslaved to Alice’s soul.
Thud
As he heard the voice of the evil spirit gradually fading away, the relieved man remained seated.
“I… succeeded.”
I saved her.
My sweetheart…
The man’s consciousness and vision were growing hazy.
As a price for that, he lost everything, and Alice will hate me, but it doesn’t matter.
As long as she is happy, as long as she can live freely from now on, it’s okay…
Snap
“…?”
The man felt someone gently supporting his upper body.
“My, my sweetheart…”
Though his vision was blurry and he couldn’t see properly, the man could tell that it was Alice.
“No, no… Mister!”
Tap, tap
A tear from the girl’s eyes fell onto the man’s face.
…Why?
The man didn’t know.
That the girl, who was connected to the evil spirit like he was, was also connected to him.
That all of his emotions and memories flowed into the girl.
“Why! Why did you do that!”
“……”
“I don’t need that kind of thing! I just need you, sir!”
‘…I made a mistake.’
Alice wished for happiness. That’s why she wished to hate herself.
If she knew his true intentions, Alice would be sad.
He didn’t want that.
“Why, why are you trying to protect me, crying like this!”
The girl’s words began to break apart as she sobbed.
Dying for my sake?
For someone like me who didn’t even know her properly, yet tried to kill him?
Why! Why are you doing this!
Thud.
The man’s hand rested on the sobbing girl’s head.
“Cutie….”
“Oh, sir….”
“I love you.”
“….!”
The tear-stained girl’s face turned red.
“I have to be happy….”
Thud
That’s how the man’s hand fell to the ground.
A quiet night
The girl’s sorrow echoed.
* * *
Past life? Or different memories?
Through recent dreams, Robina inherited Alice’s memories.
She didn’t regain all of those memories, but through several dreams, she slowly recalled the memories of being Alice.
And at the same time, she regained her shadow.
The remnants of the demon.
It was the worst curse she had, but thanks to the sacrifice of the old man, the shadow had absolute obedience to her soul.
No longer a curse, but a proof of the old man’s love towards her.
The old man.
The reason for her existence.
If….
If it wasn’t just me, but the old man also had a past life?
If the old man exists in this world?
Then, can I meet the man and ask for forgiveness?
To him… Can I say everything I couldn’t say to him?
Can I confess the love… that I couldn’t talk about?
And now, as Alice, who has become Robina, she was able to reunite with her man as she pleased.
“Ha… our cutie. You’ve become so strong, haven’t you?”
It was very different from what she wanted and expected.
Through Robina’s eyes, she saw Secretarys, who had become covered in blood by her shadow.
And his face overlapped with the face of her previous man.
“… No.”
She shook her head vigorously.
“That’s… impossible. Ah, sir?”
“Our… our cutie…”
“No…”
This time too…
Why…
The shadow that kills the man, just like in her previous life.
Despite being a residue of the demon that she could control thanks to the sacrifice of her man, the shadow killed him once again.
As proof of the love, nothing else but the man’s love.
Thump
Thump
Thump
Thud
And the heart of Vissus, the Secretary of Hearts, stopped.
“No, no, no, no, no, no, no…!”
The girl screamed again and embraced Vissus tightly.
“Please! Please, don’t!”
Whooosh
At that moment, as Vissus let go, the holy sword that had fallen to the ground emitted a brilliant light and slowly rose into the air.
The light of healing enveloped the surroundings.
Thump
Vissus’s heart began to beat again.