Chapter 202 – Reconciliation

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The first time I opened her eyes, recognizing her existence as ‘me’, ‘she’was crying.

It’s a failure. Failed. I wanted to say something comforting to her who was blaming herself for her faults her, repeating her words her.

I could n’t help but listen to her voice as I still could n’t speak the language perfectly.

And, the sudden chill. No, ‘cold’.

It starts to freeze from the bottom of my feet to the depths of my body.

The moment I felt that my heart, which had been beating with warmth, became cold due to the cold, and that even my soul would be frozen.

Taking responsibility for failing to create me, and being my sole understanding her with no existence to be called a ‘parent’, she removed herself.

That is my first memory.

My consciousness flowed out of the frozen body into what remained of her body—and into the ocean of information she was holding.

And, in that, I saw a lot of things.

There was a limit to the amount of information a human being could contain, but I, who was not tied to her body her, became in the same state as the ‘her artificial spirit’ that created her.

I enjoyed as much knowledge as I could.

I spent the first millennium like that, and I satisfied all of my ‘curiosity’her.

Of course, thinking that I don’t know how long I will retain this knowledge when I return to my body her.

Even so, I knew what I couldn’t forget.

Created with me, now somewhere in this world-

A male entity of Archetype B. My mate my mate. My half body.

The purpose of my existence is to connect with him and make my family prosper in this world.

And, by using the power of the dark magic possessed by the clan, to stop Adam who could cause destruction to the world.

With that significance engraved deep in my soul, I began to wait for the day when my body would awaken again.

As the artificial spirit began to replace the lost place, I was able to use her function to survey the ground for the next thousand years.

The earth was still barren, and the stars that had just begun to regenerate slowly began to show plants and animals.

Still, I continued to observe, feeling a little disappointed that I couldn’t feel the presence of my other half.

And when another thousand years had passed, humans appeared on earth.

However, what I feel from them is the ominous energy of ‘Adam’.

It was complicated for me that ‘Adam’ started creating his own new humans, not regenerated by the power of the stars.

Their existence was the most unpleasant thing, but they were the reason for their existence to connect with my other half.

And, at the same time-

His presence was felt by me as well.

No matter how far away you are, you can tell, because he was truly an existence woven by fate.

However… Even if I try to call him with all my might, even if I try to convey this feeling to him whose name is unknown.

Without reaching him. He married another woman and left offspring.

But, it’s fine with that. Because he never disappears.

Even after that, his presence appeared on the ground and disappeared over and over again.

Thanks to the power of his previous life his, he is resurrected again and again.

Each time, little by little, I could feel it getting closer.

And at the same time-

There is always a woman other than me by his side.

Making love with a woman other than me.

Whispering to her the words of affection she deserves.

Spending time with her that she should have with me.

Die in front of her eyes, not mine, or die-

Die with a smile in front of the children, not the fruit of love with me-

Die in wars and fights where I can’t see-

Being hated and killed for being a member of the Dark Demon clan, or—

His existence His that gets closer to me while repeating life and death.

The happiness and despair he feels. Drives me crazy

Why in a place where I’m not- why spend time with me like that-

How many times, how many times, how many times, the pain of losing loved ones.

So 3,000 years.

The world was overflowing with Adam’s descendants, and among them he reincarnated again.

Like all previous lives, he will have a painful childhood due to Adam’s plan his.

However, this time it was a little different.

I feel his presence closer than any other former life form.

I did n’t know his name, and I did n’t know if I could reach him.

I called him.

Call, call, call, call, call…

Get me out of this coffin of ice.

Please, let me live the same time as you.

That’s the only reason I was born.

The world polluted by Adam is fine.

Please don’t leave me alone anymore

With only that heart

My spirit returned to my body.

001

Cleon once again moved to the underground laboratory of the pylon.

It was because while preparations were in full swing on the ground to return, Mercury carefully called out only Cleon.

That there is a story that must be conveyed to him.

And, having something to show.

As for the content, I guessed to some extent.

For these few days, Mercury was continuing his research on Lilim, which he had sealed with magic using facilities underground, without revealing his face on the surface.

It should be said that it was an achievement, or it must have been a summary of the contents that could be conveyed to Cleon to some extent.

Thinking about that, after going down the long, long stairs.

Head to the main system room, where Mercury is waiting.

When I went through the automatic door and went inside, I saw Mercury wearing a white robe that he was now perfectly suited to.

“You’re here. Cleon.”

Mercury said so and put the mug in his hand down on the desk.

Cleon nodded lightly and looked around.

Originally, there should have been ‘Lilim’ in this room, trapped in a crystal by the restraint technique Metatron.

However, now she was nowhere to be seen.

“If it’s her, she’s in another room right now. Making final adjustments.”

“…Final adjustments?”

“Okay. Just wait a bit and the results will come out.”

Her choice of words her for saying that was a little disquieting, but Mercury told Cleon to take her seat her as if to reassure him.

“While investigating her, I saw her her memories of her. The first time she awakened was a story from 5000 years ago. Judging from the timing, the war between the holy swordsmen using holy swords in the primitive world reached an uncontrollable level… Golden Comet It is the point of descent to this earth.”

When the word was uttered, Cleon’s fingers her ‘twisted’ and she reacted reflexively.

“The ground was destroyed. Literally, leaving nothing but ashes. Enveloped in a purifying flame so intense that it raised the temperature of the planet’s surface by several degrees.”

Traces of the past turned to ashes, few remnants of the primordial world remain on the ground, concentrated underground—

It must have been because she destroyed everything that remained on the ground.

“In such a situation. Eve Unit 1 couldn’t send the first archetype type B – ‘Lilim’ to the ground. However, the control personality of ‘Eve’, which was an artificial spirit, seems to have caused a bug.. He denied the meaning of his existence and ‘suicided’ because he could not successfully complete his mission.”

“Is such a thing possible even for artificial spirits?”

Mercury shrugs her shoulders.

“For those of us who don’t have emotions, it’s probably not an option. However, it seems that all the artificial spirits who separated from me awakened their selves in the middle of the experiment… It seems that Unit 1’s ego was a ‘pessimist’.”

He failed to control his emotions and was oppressed by the pressure of not being able to complete his mission, so he could not bear it and chose his own extinction.

It’s not life, but it was a tragic story.

“…In the memories of the Demonic Sword Emperor, ‘Lilim’ was trapped in a frozen coffin. Is that a measure taken by the control personality of the extinct ‘Eve’?”

At Cleon’s words, Mercury nodded his head.

“Yes, that’s right. In the same way as this elf’s body. It is a technique that freezes the human body to artificially put it into a state of suspended animation, suspends life activities, and prevents cell division – to put it simply, ‘ aging’ and puts it to sleep.”

“That’s also the technology of the primal world.”

“Originally, it was a technology developed for the purpose of keeping people with diseases for which there is no cure yet alive until a cure is found.”

The more he listened, the more Cleon could not help but feel the difference between ancient and modern technology, and he kept his mouth shut for a while.

“The important thing is that Lilim’s consciousness then left the body and wandered around the artificial spirit database.”

“…Then-“

Mercury nodded.

“Yes. I was feeling the 5,000 years as they were. Originally, it wasn’t supposed to be like that. It’s impossible for the human mind to last that long.”

Like the human body, the mind and soul are impermanent.

They may be less so than the body, but they are slowly wearing away.

The limit of information that can be accepted, the degree of which gradually weakens when you feel the emotions you have already felt again.

The lack of the part that makes a human being human takes place over a long period of time.

“Not only that, but clumsily obtaining the authority of the control facility and observing the ground. Observing your past lives may also be the cause of her madness.”

“…Is it…”

“… You don’t have to look so self-blaming. There must have been various causes. Like ‘Eve”s suicide for not getting her out in time… But also ‘Adam”s intervention. Besides . The past life and now. “You’re a different human being. You don’t have to feel responsible for not meeting her. Cleon.”

At Mercury’s consolation, Cleon nodded his head.

As she said, the reincarnation and Cleon are both different humans.

In addition, it was Cleon’s own will that made him decide to part with his previous life and past his.

“Still, is it guided by fate? While meeting Cain, the ‘Emperor of the Demonic Sword’, she crossed over 5,000 years and finally met her reincarnated body of her.”

“…Is it a story that I know from there?”

Lilim woke up in a frozen coffin and spent 10 years with Cain.

In the end, Cain went crazy under the influence of the previous birth factor, and she tried to stop Adam’s plan in the worst form, but was punished by Lecia.

Lilim hoped to survive and meet her reincarnated body her once again.

“She is-“

“Wait. Looks like the adjustment is over.”

Cleon was about to say something about her, but Mercury said so.

Something flickered on the screen as she continued to check while talking to Cleon.

“What is that coordination?”

“She’s a measure for her and you. Wait here a minute.”

Mercury said so, and she walked out of the room with a little quickness.

Cleon lowered her head, watching her disappear through the automatically closing door.

An obsession that arises from the feeling of not being able to meet the person you want to meet.

And hatred for the world that someone precious was taken away.

Cleon understood.

Lilim’s feelings for Cain and her feelings for Lesia were not that different.

However, she had no one to properly control her emotions her or support herself.

Lilim literally became a demon.

It may also be because she endured alone for a long time that she couldn’t even compare to Cleon.

She cooperated with Ishtal in Astarothe, and what she did to people will not be forgiven.

Thinking of Amelia’s work… There was no way she could forgive her.

Even if the root of it is the heart to love someone, it cannot be justified.

Only a complex mind swirled inside Cleon.

Then, Cleon heard the door open again.

When she lifted her head and looked there, ‘Mercury’ was coming in again.

…With the girl in the back.

“Now. That person is ‘Cleon’.”

When Mercury says so, and tells the girl in the back-

There, a girl from the dark horse clan wearing a white robe-

I saw ‘Lilim’.

Lilim cautiously stuck her head out and met Cleon’s eyes in her.

And Cleon had no choice but to stand up suddenly. While meeting Mercury’s gaze her.

“What did you do…!?”

Cleon’s expression was her was stained with astonishment.

Lilim was reincarnated as a demon.

However, her horns, wings, and tail her were already gone.

Besides, her attitude towards herself was also different from her previous Lilim.

“Adjusted her to her ‘rollout’ her, her her personality at the time of her point of view. She had n’t had to go through 5,000 painful years, nor had she gone through a sad separation from her former body her.”

“What…!?”

Mercury speaks calmly, revealing a small crystal pendant from her pocket her.

The crystal was what he had told Cleon to ask him to collect.

“To be precise, I extracted that part and sealed it inside. The dark magic that makes up her body—that is, along with the demonized part.”

As evidence of this, the crystal has changed from its original color and has been dyed black, and decorations such as devil’s wings and tail have been added.

“What did you do…!”

But Cleon was furious, because what Mercury did was the same as making Lilim ‘non-existent’.

He unwittingly moved close to her and grabbed her by the shoulder of her.

Mercury turned her head with a calm expression, as if expecting his reaction to her, and Lilim, who was standing behind her, stepped back from her as if a little surprised.

“I can’t make what happened ‘never happened’…! Lilim is-“

“You mean you have to pay for that sin, right?”

“Okay…!”

Still in this world, there were people who suffered because of what she had done.

Even though, during the War of Kingdoms and Empires, she didn’t do anything.

‘Amelia’ connected with the death of her little father.

The ‘Dark Horse Clan’ that is being exploited by Astarrote.

Civilians who are still being robbed of their spirit in the royal capital.

Forcibly turned into a woman, family and friends… And those who are losing themselves.

“…In this amendment, the personality of ‘Grillim’ still remains.”

“…What?”

Mercury said so and showed the pendant.

“The separated part of the personality-soul is sealed inside. It’s still conscious and can know what’s going on outside. So to speak… It’s like a prison.”

“…”

Cleon heard Mercury’s words of her and slowly let go of her hand that was holding her.

It seemed that he could understand Mercury’s intentions her a little.

The most painful thing for Lilim is not being able to reach what he wants to reach, not being able to talk to the person he wants to talk to, and being forced to watch.

Like her 5000 years of age her that have twisted her so far.

Now, she had returned to Lilim back then.

However, external factors such as ‘Eve’ and ‘Adam’ contributed to her becoming that way.

The personality of Eve, who was born for their own needs, but gave up on managing them.

Adam has repeatedly intervened to prevent Eve from meeting her previous life with her.

If those two beings-

If Eve didn’t give up and Adam didn’t run out of control.

As soon as the world returned to normal, I might have been able to enjoy a happy life with my previous life.

She was both a sinner and a victim.

So she separated Lilim, the `victim`, from Lilim, the `sinner`.

…It was a rational idea worthy of an artificial spirit.

Both Adam and Eve, beings separated from Mercury.

It must have been Mercury’s own answer to her to take responsibility for it.

The one who should be punished is Lilim, who was twisted by themselves.

It’s not Lilim, who was born purely for the sake of the world.

But Cleon knew.

That human beings cannot be so thoroughly rational beings.

That there would be no victim who could treat those two feelings separately.

“I am also responsible for this. So, I did it thinking I should take responsibility.”

Mercury said that while looking at Cleon and handing over the crystal.

By possessing a human body, she acquired human emotions to some extent.

However, it was still weak compared to other humans and had to be formed through more experiences.

Cleon alternately looks at the crystal and Lilim.

“…Can it be returned to normal?”

What Cleon was talking about was whether it was possible to return Lilim’s self inside the crystal to this Lilim’s body.

Mercury nodes her head slowly.

“If you want to do that. You can do that. Me too, I don’t think my method is right… It’s just that I got this body and learned about humans. I just developed ‘sympathy’ for her.”

“Then… Let me feel the same way for those who suffered because of her.”

At Cleon’s words her, Mercury shut her mouth for a moment, then she looked down at Lilim, whom she had adjusted.

Her eyes were fixed on Cleon, who lost his reincarnation factor and ceased to be a reincarnation.

Dimly, she seemed to sense something in his presence in her.

“What are you going to do? Cleon.”

“… Let me think a little bit of her, her her. What to do with her… I can’t decide on her own thoughts her. Amelia… And if I do n’ don’t listen to everyone.”

At Cleon’s words, Mercury nodded his head once more.

“Then. Put the next story in your head as well. It’s related to ‘Lesia’ you asked about… It’s also related to Lil-im.”

“…”

Cleon’s body stiffened at Mercury’s words her.

A few days ago, when she saw a vision of her past her here, she had lost what she was originally trying to answer by Lilim’s attack.

Mercury started talking to Cleon as if he would tell him the answer now.