burn me

The black mist in front of the man gradually dissipated.Mu Ran tried her best to ignore the ominous premonition in her heart, but her heartbeat still couldn't help it.

Mu Ran has never hated her damn prophecy so much.

It was a familiar face.For Mu Ran, the only thing she was not familiar with was the scarlet pupils and pale hair tips of the visitor.

She could even directly pronounce the name of the brutal executioner in front of her.

Its name is, "Ceci... Leah."

Chapter 25

Mu Ran stared fixedly at the person in front of her, her throat felt dry for some reason.She opened her mouth to try to ask some words, but all of them were choked in her throat.

Maybe she should ask her how she has been these years, maybe she should ask why she did this, but she thinks that her silence now is just waiting for a useless nonsense.

Wait for an "I'm sorry", even if it's "I didn't do it".

Damn it, she still harbors fantasies that she shouldn't have expected at this moment.

"I... I'm here to talk to you about something." Cecilia on the opposite side seemed to consider her words before opening her mouth. She never approached or moved away, and her erratic eyes seemed to look far away beyond her. .

Mu Ran tightened her fingers.She didn't know how to evaluate her useless psychology, and she was at a loss for her surging grievances—yes, she couldn't help answering, "...Okay, where shall we talk?"

"It's fine here... Maybe you should keep your elders away." Cecilia's eyes suddenly became sharp.Mu Ran turned around, and as expected, she saw the figures of the elders rushing over.

She was about to open her mouth to signal to the elders, but she was caught off guard by a burst of black mist and was pulled into the air, and Cecilia directly stuffed her into a black teleportation circle while struggling.

The light suddenly rose, and Mu Ran, who had fallen to the ground, forced herself to raise her head, but she could only vaguely see Cecilia's chin.Her mouth opened and closed, as if she was warning something expressionlessly.

Too bad she couldn't hear at all.

At the last second before losing consciousness, Mu Ran opened her mouth as if suddenly remembering something, her voice was as weak as a sigh, "Are you...have you lost weight?"

But she was sure Cecilia could hear.

The other end of the teleportation array is located at the edge of the desert.After the black mist dissipated, Mu Ran gradually woke up.

Cecilia was kneeling and sitting beside her, her drooping eyelashes trembling slightly, she murmured for a long time before she turned her head and choked out three words, "...I'm sorry."

Mu Ran looked at her quietly.Yellow sand fluttered in the thick air, and they rustled against Cecilia's black clothes, blooming fleeting little flowers one after another.

"Everyone in the imperial capital is a bunch of bastards!" Mu Ran carefully looked at Cecilia's pale face, and spat angrily.

"Hmm." Cecilia still didn't look at her.

"The group of elders in our clan who locked me up every day without reporting the knowledge are also bastards!"

"……Um."

"...I'm quite an asshole, too." Mu Ran suddenly vented her strength, her golden hair intertwined with the khaki sand, matching her tired expression, she showed an unspeakable exhaustion.

"Well, you are really an asshole. That's why I came to ask you to do a life-threatening thing." Cecilia finally looked at her squarely, "After all, I believe that the scourge is not a thousand years old."

"...You're right." Mu Ran blinked, and finally covered her eyes with her hands to block the wind and sand that had been stinging her eyes.It made her eyes full of tears.

"It's quite close to the abyss here." Cecilia stood up, walked not far away and patted the sand on her body, and then walked back to look down at Mu Ran.

"Ah."

"I'm sure you know where this disgusting pile of nightmare beasts come from."

"And I'm sure you know how to deal with them."

Mu Ran was silent for a while, then sat up from the ground with one hand supporting her body, and slightly bent one leg, "...I don't think...we have this need..."

"It's not something you feel. It's just something I want you to do for me."

"Of course, it doesn't matter if you refuse."

Mu Ran looked at the girl with a tough tone in front of her.Maybe she should reflect on herself, she thought silently, then smoothed her messy hair, because everything was changing.

"I think you are planning to move out of the clan land? You won't live there anymore?" Cecilia bent down to look at her with great interest as if suddenly remembering.

"……Yes."

"That's really great." Cecilia seemed to clap her hands happily, then suddenly realized something, and quickly added, "I mean, so I can ask you to bury me in You're there. It just so happens that I'm not in the way."

Mu Ran suddenly raised her head to look at her, her eyes mixed with understanding and incredulity, "...you have your own homeland."

"Muran... the land of the elves is a paradise-like place for me, not to mention," Cecilia sat cross-legged on the sand, raised her eyes to the hot sun, "maybe I don't remember What does my hometown look like—that’s why I look like my hometown everywhere.”

"Muran, look, does this look like a joke?"

"So I thought, why not just go to your hometown. Maybe I can still visit you often."

Chapter 26

Perhaps because the air was too stagnant, Mu Ran and Cecilia silenced their voices at the same time, and became desolate and quiet together with the gradually silent desert.

The sky was getting dark little by little, as if a layer of dark blue with uneven thickness had been smeared indiscriminately with a clumsy paintbrush.The cold air was blowing in the night, Cecilia's slightly curly hair danced gently on her shoulders, falling into Mu Ran's eyes staring at her.But no one opened their mouths to mention what they were going to do next.

There are no campfires, tents, or poetry collections.The two of them just sat quietly, and even the eye contact was fleeting.

But there is indeed a starry sky here.It also has a beautiful moonlight.It's like the night when they took the task assigned by the school to form a team to explore and sleep in the forest.

Mu Ran may never forget that little girl who looked thin and small, who turned her face sideways to her who was pretending to be sleeping, and whispered to her question not long ago. Her breath hit her face lightly, warm and Energetic, "I'll give you the first row seat for the rest of my life, no matter where you are."

But where are you and I now?

These two lives are superimposed, vaguely like a clear dream.

But the dream is always to wake up.

because--

"Mu Ran... It's dawn." Two identical voices overlapped in Mu Ran's ears, and the interlacing of time and space made her feel a little empty for a while.She looked aimlessly into the distance, but saw the familiar black mist rolling and gathering like dark clouds overwhelming the city, and finally stopped not far from them.

"Muran..." Cecilia sat on the ground in the same posture as the night before, turned her head and looked at her calmly, and said with a smile, "It's time to end."

Time to end.

ended.

……

Mu Ran, who was hugged by Yier, looked at the front of the flames through the flying powder after the concentric stone was crushed, and the hands that had been tightly clenched all the time gradually loosened.

She doesn't know what she should do.Just as she was at a loss when she saw Cecilia's beast posture.

No, not just helplessness, but also an uncontrollable frenzy of guilt.

Yi'er behind her was crying intermittently, and she stumbled and repeated the three words "I'm sorry", but she still couldn't say anything.

But Mu Ran couldn't guess.

Goddess in the concentric stone, she is divided into two halves.Just like her.

She guessed... Yi'er must have sealed her memory back then.

That's half of her body.her dreams.Almost all of her soul.

Just when she injected all the power of the Holy Light into Cecilia's body, turned into an ordinary elf, and then committed suicide beside Cecilia.

She thought it was over.She thought it was their biggest wedding ever.In the future, they will live in the undisturbed north without hindrance.

She wanted to cry, to be hoarse, to overthrow the entire Abyss, wishing she could kill herself who had wiped out Cecilia again.

But this time there is no after.

The weakness of Nightmare Beast is its red eyes.And when she stabbed the sword into Cecilia's heart, she was betting on a chance.

A chance that Cecilia will be resurrected.

And at that time, she, who was reborn with her memories, would definitely break the seal with her own hands, explain everything clearly, and then take her home.

Go home with her Cecilia.

Mu Ran couldn't help blinking her dry eyes, but she couldn't shed a single tear.It made her mad with shame.

The little Cecilia, who sang praises to her all day long and believed in her unconditionally, was killed by her own hands again.again.

At that time, she promised Cecilia to seal all the nightmare beasts that existed on the mainland, and then lead the alien space to the abyss.

At that time, she and Cecilia went back to the elf land hand in hand and dug a small cemetery.

Cecilia was lying on the simple stone platform, looking at her happily, wanting to embrace her——

She then left the seal in place, wanting to keep her safe from outsiders.

The wind and sand outside Abyss gradually poured into the space.Mu Ran looked down at Yi'er's arm on her shoulder, raised her hand and gently took it off.

"...I don't know why you did this, maybe you have your own considerations, maybe you really want us all to be better——" Mu Ran stood up and turned towards the fire.