Chapter 152 – 152 – ─── # 2

152 – ─── # 2

Arud Gregory.

He said.

“Twenty years ago. Twins were born in the citadel of Taeil. They were different children who looked similar to each other. Among them, boys were particularly special.”

Twins were born in the fortress of Tae-man-.

It was my first time hearing that story.

Deception?

Truth?

I used my brain to see through Arud’s intentions.

But Arud just leisurely walked around the pillar of light and talked.

“I realized the moment I saw the child. This kid is so unimaginable that he will make so many people sad. “This child is the murderer of Midvar that Emma prophesied!”

“…”

“But-. I couldn’t bear to kill a newborn baby. So that day, I hid the child in a place where no one could find him. It hid its very existence. By my power. Maybe that was wrong. At that time, I probably should have strangled that thin neck with these hands. But—. But then.”

Zek-.

Gregory’s finger pointed at me.

“How on earth did you come back?”

“Are you saying I am that child?”

“Okay. The moment I saw you at the church, I recognized you at a glance. That you are the prince that was promised… But you were wearing a mask. A mask named Hyde-.”

Hyde.

Is that a mask?

I couldn’t understand it.

“You are nothing more than black soot blooming from the ‘flame’ called Rust, which was born as an emperor. The soot will destroy and ruin everything. Therefore, your existence must be erased.”

“I… It’s soot… ? It’s not Rust, it’s me, Hyde… ?”

Not the Rust of sin.

I, Hyde, am the soot that needs to disappear?

I felt shocked, as if someone was grabbing my head and shaking it.

“From ashes to ashes. From dust to dust. Hyde. You, who are nothing, must disappear into nothingness. “Into the darkness of the beginning, where you originally existed.”

Paaaaat-!

Everything began to emit more intense light.

According to Gregory, this was the disappearance of the existence of ‘I’.

“This shit!!!”

“There is no use in resisting. This is because I have been in complete control of this place for twenty years. I mean this sincerely. “You can’t stand up to me right now, when you haven’t even decided who you are.”

Control.

Is this space controllable?

In my mind, which was turning completely white in many ways, I thought about various things.

To keep my promise to Milione.

Also, I couldn’t believe that I was just soot created by a flame called Rust.

“I’m afraid you won’t even be able to go to hell, where the woman you love will be waiting for you. She said, “Where you must go is eternal nothingness.” Therefore, -hide from everyone’s memories. Hyde. Just like it was 20 years ago-. “So that no one in the world remembers the name Hyde.”

Everything in the world began to turn white.

It’s like going back to a blank page.

Will everything just disappear like this?

Am I really unable to even go to hell?

No-.

It can’t end here like this!

You can’t make Milione’s death a dog’s death!

I didn’t want to end up at the mercy of someone like Gregory!

“Please save me─.”

I prayed earnestly.

“Please save me─.” Please—!”

Please─.

I put my hands together and prayed.

If there is a God, there is no way he would listen to my prayers-.

Still, just in case.

If there is even the slightest bit of ‘providence’ involved in my being here-.

If there is a clear meaning for me being here─.

“… “Please save me.”

I hoped with all my heart.

Gregory looked at me like that and just laughed out loud.

“Are you worried about your own life? Don’t worry. Now I will bring an equal and peaceful end to the world. It’s something only I can do. “Only I in this world—.”

Gregory’s laughter grew louder.

It felt like everything in the world had disappeared and only the sound of his laughter remained.

“At ease. With my power strengthened on the axis of rotation, no one will remember your name anymore. You also committed a terrible betrayal. Something that failed. No one will remember. You as a person will be completely forgotten by the world. “I hope it can be a source of rest for you too.”

I prayed earnestly.

Towards the standard of everything-.

If this place is a place that can kill everyone─.

If there was a place where you could do something so absurd—!

Wouldn’t it be possible to save just one person?-.

I shouted out to a world so white that it made my head ache.

“Help me—!!! Please-!!!”

# # #

“Hey! What are you doing there! It’s going to rain! Finish your work quickly and come in! “Bring the sheep from the hills!”

Someone shouted.

The man suddenly came to his senses.

When I looked up at the sky, the world was dark even though it was only lunchtime.

It was evidence that rain clouds were gathering.

But-.

Something that existed beyond the rain clouds stole the man’s attention.

Soon the man’s colleague, Banson (probably his name) came up and tapped him on the shoulder.

“What are you doing?”

“No. The thing beyond those rain clouds. Something like a strange light floating in the sky. “I was wondering what on earth that was.”

What the man’s eyes were looking at was a round light floating in the sky.

The halo that seemed to be floating above the angels’ heads was shining in the sky on a very large scale.

“Is it true that you can see that light when you look at the sky from anywhere in the world? What is it?”

Two years have already passed since the terrible war between the Allies and the Blood Crusade in Sodomy.

Winter of that year.

That strange light that appeared in the sky had already become part of people’s daily lives.

“Let’s go. They say a ‘saint’ is coming to our village tomorrow! “It’s not the time to be like this, we should take a shower, buy new clothes, and get a haircut!”

The man came to his senses after hearing Banson’s words.

“Saint?”

“Okay! They say the saint is really as pretty as a flower! And it is said that poor lepers also pray without discrimination. Do you know anything? Since she has such a kind heart, shepherds like us might have a chance to see the saint’s face!”

“Ah─.”

The man remembered the rumors about the saint that were going around the world.

They say you are beautiful like a flower and your heart shines like a star.

“If we are lucky, the saint might pray for us. She might be able to smell the hem of her heavenly dress. Hehe-.”

When Banson laughs.

The man felt puzzled.

“How could someone as famous and busy as the saint come to a town as unremarkable as ours? “The only thing you see in our village is a flock of sheep.”

“I don’t know! Perhaps you are coming to see Kenzo the Hunter? Because Kenzo the Hunter is famous for capturing the fearsome executives of Saikozu with a gun!”

“Is it…”

He is a celebrity who will never be associated with him for the rest of his life.
Saint.

It would be nice if we could meet-.

With that in mind, the man herded the sheep.

“Whoa, whoa-. Woah… Huh?”

Then I noticed the problem.

“One is not enough. “Black guy.”

One lamb was missing.

These days-.

Lambs were rare in today’s world, where no new products were born for some reason.

“Hey. Where are you? This guy hides in strange places every day. It’s upsetting to people. Where are you? Come out quickly! Are you here? Here? Huh?”

The man crossed the Agarpe Hill in search of a lamb with black fur -.

Someone was sitting on the tombstone of ‘Psyche Agarpe’, who was once called the angel of Agarpe territory.

‘Sitting on a dead person’s tombstone. ‘Aren’t you afraid of heavenly punishment?’

The man opened his narrow eyes and looked at the stranger.

Meeeee-.

She was holding her lamb in her arms and covering herself with white clothes.
The reason why she said ‘she is she’ was because her dress was so feminine that it could not be hidden.

“Hello.”

The woman asked.

It was a sweet and beautiful voice.

The woman was stroking her lamb’s leg with her white-gloved hands, but when she looked closely, the lamb’s leg was injured.

Wooooow-.

It seems that the woman was correcting it with her divine power.

“Are you this child’s guide? She said this child was injured in a rock crevice. She was crying very pitifully. Furthermore, she said that an old acquaintance was here, so she stopped by here to meet him…”

Sseukseu-.

She was stroking the headstone she was sitting on with a woman’s white glove.
It was a thin and beautiful finger.

The man blushed slightly.

“… Thank you for healing the sheep. That guy likes to hide in small places. I keep getting hurt… He is a very shy guy…”

He was a very old-fashioned shepherd, and it had been a long time since he had spoken to a woman.

In the first place, it had been a long time since he had spoken to anyone except for his colleague, Banson.

Because his opponents were always the sheep.

Tuduk, tutuk-. Toduk-.

Water droplets slowly begin to pour from the sky.

Soon the woman in the white veil handed the lamb to the man and asked.

“You like hiding. Cute. The color is also rare, black. What’s your name? The name of this black sheep.”

“This kid? There is no name yet. If there was a good name, I wanted to give it one. Because I’m not good at things like this. In the first place, it wasn’t my sheep, it was the elders’ sheep—.”

“Is it so? It’s pitiful. Being born and not even having a name. “Then can I give you a name?”

The man was a little taken aback by the woman’s question.

The woman continued to speak as she awkwardly scratched the back of her head.

“You said this kid likes to hide, right? In that sense, Hide─. What about Hyde? Don’t you think it’s a good name? It’s also a very famous name.”

Very, very famous-.

The woman kept repeating that story.

However, the man shrugged his shoulders.

“Is that so. It’s an unfamiliar name to me. You’re famous. “Is this the name of a famous bard in the royal or provincial capitals?”

Agarpe Village was a base village for shepherds from all over the countryside.

The only news about famous people in the royal or provincial capitals was heard from the occasional cart drivers.

The man scratched the bridge of his nose, as if slightly embarrassed by his ignorance.

“…”

The woman in the white veil now closed her mouth.
The man, feeling slightly embarrassed and uncomfortable, opened his mouth to lead the conversation in a slightly exaggerated voice.

“I don’t know about Hyde. I. I think you know who it is. Are you a saint? I heard that a year after she was ordained by the Pope, she was made a priest with a gold plate.”

Slurp-.

As her identity was revealed, the woman lifted her white veil and revealed her face.
It was such an incredible beauty that everyone seemed to hold their breath and look at it for a while.

The eyes, shining like beautifully crafted rubies, looked at the man and asked.

“You seem to know me quite well. Mr. Shepherd. If so, let me ask too. “What is your name?”

At that question, the black-haired man blushed and smiled.
And shyly but clearly-.

He said it like he always did.

“This is Henry. Henry Jekyll.”