Together with irreplaceable friends, together with enemies entangled in cause and effect.
In this battle that swept the entire continent, almost everyone lost a lot and grew a lot.
Including "him" floating in the darkness.
As a key figure at the center of the storm, he gained far more than others, and also lost.
The past events are vivid in my mind.
Enrollment, civil strife, loss of irreplaceable friends, and becoming a so-called hero.
Carrying the name of a so-called hero, he is confused and hesitant.
Graduate from school, become a teacher, and experience new turmoil.
War broke out again. In order to prevent the war, he fought with his biological father.
In the end, after paying a huge price, he regarded himself as a sacrifice, shouldered all this, and took the source of the war and all the culprits away from his country and the world where he lived.
The future will be eternal disaster between them.
But he was not dissatisfied.
Because his departure can bring stability to the people he values, his country, and even the entire world, he has the obligation to look back.
If I had to say it, I probably failed to save more people and implicated two important partners in this final eternal disaster.
He hoped that they could live well, even though that was simply unrealistic.
Of course, from another perspective, this is also a good thing. At least with the company of his companions, he will not feel lonely and will not succumb to the terrible eternal disaster.
"Give me...give me...everything belongs to me..."
The sounds echoing in my mind are endless and so terrifying that it makes people tremble from the inside out.
But when I think about my friends, relatives, and companions living far away, I recall that they call my name over and over again——
"Rean..."
"Rean..."
"Shhuaze..."
"Shhuaze..."
He will have endless fighting spirit.
I won't lose!
Even if I keep struggling with that voice!
Even if you stay in darkness forever and fall into eternal sleep.
Boundless darkness, endless silence, time loses its meaning here.
He didn't know how much time had passed, but he felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and his consciousness was getting darker and darker.
While half asleep and half awake, he heard a sneer.
"It's embarrassing, it's really embarrassing."
"Yes, Yatsuha Itto-ryu has the curse of overpowering one's wife and one's wife. Forget about overcoming one's friends, one can also overpower one's own wife. What's the point of overcoming someone else's wife?"
"Thanks to you, you are still the Imperial Peach Blossom Sword, and thanks to you, you have become a sword master. It's really great. Don't you think so? Rean Schwarzer?"
"Who?" He, Rean Schwarzer, made a sound for the first time in a long time with his lips that had not been opened for a long time, "Did the curse of 'Black' change again?"
"Ah, that's enough. I know you have been severely eroded by the curse, but you won't lose your most basic judgment. Can that guy talk to you as fluently as me? It will just keep repeating itself.
The same words make people upset."
Rean admitted that the voice had a point.
He is eager to apply the curse to himself, and he is very clear about the essence of the curse. It is the evil result of expanded desires, a collection of evil thoughts, and the embodiment of chaos.
Since the essence is chaotic, there is not much logic at all, let alone having such a clear dialogue with oneself.
Moreover, he listened carefully, and the "Black Curse" was still repeating the declaration of desire that he had said countless times.
But if it’s not the “Black Curse”, then what is it?
Rean calmed down and asked tentatively: "What are you? Human? Goddess? Demon?"
"It doesn't matter what I am, and you won't be able to understand it if I tell you - but saying this may not dispel your wariness, because you are an overly serious person, so just say a few more words."
"I'm a man, so I'm not a goddess. I was once a human being just like you. As for what I am now, it won't be too late to tell you after you transcend the world by relying on your true abilities instead of this tricky way."
Although he did not understand all the meaning of the sound, Rean could still judge two points:
First, the voice is not malicious.
Second, the owner of the voice is a powerful being beyond human beings.
This place is outside the world, a restricted area for humans, it can transmit sounds to itself, and it does not alarm the "Black Curse". These two points alone are beyond Rean's imagination.
Why would such a powerful being come to find me?
Li En wanted to ask, but before he could ask, the voice expressed his doubts first.
"Your next sentence is, why did you come to me?"
Li En nodded: "Why did you come to me?"
The voice replied: "Because there is a connection between us, although you don't know it. I really can't bear to see you living in such a miserable life, so I'm here to help you."
"Help me?" Li En suddenly became excited, "How can you help me? Can you help me lift the curse?"
"Okay, it's a piece of cake."
"What about sending me and my friends back to Semilia?"
"No problem. But are you sure you want me to do this?"
"What do you mean?" Li En didn't understand.
"I can lift the curse and send you back, but the lives taken away by the curse will not come back. The same goes for your two friends. Their existence is closely related to the curse. If the curse is lifted, they will die, just like other 'undead people'
Same."
"!!!" Li En's excited mood suddenly turned cold.
He knew that the voice was right, which was why the two of them had to follow him here.
"There's just... no way to save them?"
"Unfortunately, saving people is not my specialty. Although I do know how to resurrect the 'immortal', even if I save them, it will be too late for others. If I really want to save them and save people who should not have died, I can only rely on
yourself."
After hearing the first half of the sentence, Li En's heart had already turned cold. Unexpectedly, the second half of the sentence rekindled his hope.
"You, you mean...there is still a chance to save everything."
The voice said simply: "Whether you can be saved or not depends on you."
"Please tell me what I should do."
Rean didn't hesitate at all, even if the cost was his life, he had no regrets.
"You have to figure out how to do it yourself. What I tell you is my answer, not yours. But I can send you back to the past and give you a chance to start over."
"Do it again!"
He couldn't believe his ears. He hammered his thigh hard to make sure he was not dreaming, and then continued.
"Is it really possible?"
"Of course, that's why I'm here." There was determination in his voice.
"What do I need to pay for?" Li En asked again. He is no longer a young man, and he knows the truth of gains and losses.
"No need. I really want to repay you. Let's wait until you get out of a different future. Even so, if I send you back like this, even if you can avoid this ending, you may not be able to save everyone... Forget it, save people.
If you save me to the end, I will give you two more gifts."
"What gift?" Rean knew that it was wrong to be greedy, but he couldn't help but not to be greedy at this time because human lives were at stake.
"You will know when you go back. Use them well and let me see the most perfect future - let me go!"
Li En wanted to ask again, but the owner of the voice didn't give him a chance to speak. He gave it to him from somewhere.
Rean felt as if someone had kicked him in the back of the head. With the world spinning, he completely lost consciousness.