Chapter 174 – 174 – Paradise Lost #2

174 – Paradise Lost #2

“You are such a mess. Doban. “I can’t believe that you, who were once called the red-maned thief, have found yourself in such a miserable state.”

Someone spoke and Doban woke up from his thoughts.

A tent installed in an open space in Barakhan.

When I looked at the entrance, a thin man came into the tent with a sword on his waist.

“Aguiles. “My spirit is clear.”

“I heard that story just a little while ago. I’ll sit down for a bit. I walked for a long time. What is that funny flower on your head instead? It’s very ugly.”

Agiles couldn’t help but laugh as she looked at the flower crown Doban was wearing on his head.

Was Dovan, Count of Agarpe, known as a prisoner of Ras, the Great Sin?

“Life as a prisoner of Ras won’t be easy, right?”

“Well, it’s not that bad. Isn’t it said that no parent can beat his child? “Right now, I’m just thankful that we can be together like this.”

Zek-.

Doban looked at his reflection in the mirror.

It was a flower headband that did not fit the appearance of a general who commanded the battlefield.

However, the appearance reminded me of a long time ago.

A long time ago.

This was because it looked very similar to the flower necklace or crown that my younger daughter had worked hard to pick and make.

Agiles stroked his shaved chin.

“Did you know as expected?”

“Agiles, children forget their parents. It is said that parents cannot forget their children. “I’m just glad to know that her daughter is alive.”

Doban.

He rode around the Agarpe territory with Lass in the butterfly mask on his back.

At that time, he cried. Everyone thought it was tears of humiliation, but in fact, he was crying out of emotion.

“Your horse driving skills are the same as when you were young. It’s grown a lot now, but… When I was young, I would ride around the garden with Psyche on my back. So there was no way I didn’t know.”

Zek-.

Doban now folded his arms.

And he asked his old friend.

“So, Aguileth. Why did I come here when everyone was busy? “If you want to talk about my daughter, Wilhemina and I will continue to pretend not to know.”

“I came to ask about Hyde. I’m sure you remember what Pendragon told us that day. Didn’t she ask me to protect her child?”

“…”

“The child you protected while stigmatizing him as a traitor is about to throw himself into the river. I don’t know what to do. If it stays like this, Hyde will—.”

Doban thought of another old friend.

The men were close enough to betroth each other’s unborn children, and they were like brothers.

Doban wanted to die with the man who was his brother, but he could not.

━Doban. You live and protect my children. This is the child that Asha and I had. I will definitely become a better human being than anyone else. Like me. So live, Doban. Bear the stigma for me.

“…”

At that time, the only way for the believers to survive was to surrender to the religious order.

That’s how Agarpe survived, and he held his breath waiting for the man to appear one day.

How many days have I lived under the stigma of betrayal?

“… Aguiles. To be honest, I don’t know if Hyde is the man we’ve been waiting for. But my daughter Psyche decided to believe him. “I have no choice.”

Hehe, everyone laughed.

Zek-.

Doban now went outside the tent and looked at the sky.

The dazzling halo was still shining down on the world.

“It’s a shame. It’s a shame. Damn Gregory. “If he had been born during his reign, he would have been a better king than anyone else.”

# # #

Lucy headed towards the rooftop.

There stood Hyde, his red robe fluttering in the wind.

“Hyde… !”

Lucy shouted as loud as she could.

The man slowly looked back.

“Lucy.”

“…”

Lucy really wanted to meet Hyde and tell him a lot.

The moment she faced Hyde, her mouth fell silent.

It was Hyde who opened her mouth first.
He opened his arms and spoke to Seongwangcheong and Barakhan, who were burning here and there.

“Look at my accomplishments. In less than a month, Barakhan and the royal capital were captured. “No one could have done something like this.”

It was a great thing.

But Lucy wasn’t that surprised that Hyde could do such great things.

If it were Hyde, he could have done it faster.
Nevertheless, the reason it took a month was-.

It was because Hyde was still hesitating.

This was because a deep hesitation was still blooming in Hyde’s heart.

Lucy knew very well what that hesitation was for.

So he took courage.

“Inhale!”

Bang-!

A beautiful halo bloomed behind Lucy’s head.

Lucy stood before Hyde as a king.

Lucy could see that Hyde’s heart was broken like a mosaic.

It seemed like a puzzle with missing pieces.

“Hyde. I know what you want. You’re thinking of going to my father Gregory, right? But, Hyde, I don’t want to let you go.”

Kuwoouk-.

Lucy clenched her fists.

Lucy wanted to help Hyde, but he also wanted to hinder him.
The reason was simple.

“Are you losing it? Emotions and memories-. You’re losing the most precious things to Hyde. Hyde, your mind is already broken into pieces like a puzzle.”

“Really?”

“In that situation, if it touches the axis of rotation, it will literally disappear.”

“Lucy. It’s something you have to try to know. And me. I feel perfect right now. Now I finally feel like I was born. I can feel the wind on my face. “It’s like taking off a mask I’ve been wearing for a long time.”

Zek-.

Hyde looked at the world again.

The wind blowing over the burning flames was hot.

“… Hyde.”

Lucy couldn’t hold it back and cried loudly.

Lucy liked Hyde.

It was because he was a good and wonderful man.

If he let this man go like this, the man he loved would truly disappear from the world.
But-.

Even if I didn’t let him go like this, the man would disappear someday.

So Lucy chose.

“If you want to go to my father Gregory, you have to go to Paradise Lost. There really might be a little hope there. Even a little hope… !”

“Is it. “Paradise lost.”

Zek-.

The man looked up at the sky.

And he walked again.
As he was about to go down the stairs, the woman in the butterfly mask trembled.

“Hyde. There really isn’t much left now.”

“Okay. “Now it’s really just one step.”

“…”

Lars in the butterfly mask closed her mouth.
Because I heard the conversation with Lucy, I knew that if this one step was taken, Hyde might really disappear.

There was a lot I wanted to say, but-.

Psyche decided to remain silent.

No matter what he said, he couldn’t break this man’s will.

But I couldn’t cheer for it either.

So what I chose was silence.

In that silence, the man spoke.

“Thank you.”

# # #

“If it’s Paradise Lost, I know Corpse. My ancient ancestor, Baltimere, dug a deep hole in Sodomy and the surrounding land!”

Viscount Coffs, the platinum chair.

He talked about what he knew about Paradise Lost.

“Sodomy at that time was even bigger. Taeju’s citadel and its vicinity depicted on this map were all part of the huge city of Sodomy.”

The Baltimere family once dug deep into the ground a long time ago.

After hearing that a terrifying “Devil” Was sleeping underground, they attempted to excavate it.

It is said that they unearthed ‘great malice’ deep underground, and from then on, everyone in the vicinity of Sodomy went crazy and the Voltemir family also fell.

At that time, people called the excavated ruins “Paradise Lost,” But now, a long time later, it is just a legend or a myth.

“It looks like that place really existed. “The stories of my ancestors were real.”

Viscount Coffs was impressed.

Soon Ezekiel, the 52nd baptist, trembled.

“When you heard that there was a devil underground, why did you want to excavate it? I heard that the ancestors of the Baltimere family were faithful believers…”

Everyone kept their mouths shut.

I decided to give a brief answer to this story.

“If you can prove the existence of the devil, you can also prove the existence of God. At that time, the head of the Baltimere family probably wanted to find God by facing the devil.”

If devils and ghosts really exist, the probability that the God we believe in also really exists increases greatly.

So, people may be instinctively fascinated by stories about devils and ghosts.

Something surreal.

They probably want to confirm the great afterlife that exists beyond death.

“After the earth shaking two years ago, a huge crack in the ground appeared near Taeman’s Fortress. In ancient times, it was also the territory of sodomy. “You can go down that deep crack.”

There must be a door to the axis of rotation that Gregory was unable to hide.

People were happy.

However, Hans placed the board on the map and spoke in a calm yet slightly worried tone.

“Troops are beginning to gather near the old Taean Citadel. There is information that Thorin, the platinum wizard, and Saint Milione were also seen there.”