Episode 202
In the green city,
This may be because the mayor and his associates were arrested by the special department, and the movement of merchants, citizens, and tourists passing through the city was also restricted.
That’s why we headed to the island with Korra’s guidance. In the middle of the main island of Linkland, to the place where Link was originally buried.
“You just have to keep going this way.”
“thank you.”
“Thank you. You don’t have to tell us that. “Don’t even do it.”
It was a canyon densely covered with chestnut trees and filled with a sweet and bitter scent.
Numerous wildflowers have bloomed over the graveyard where footsteps have been cut off due to the Slayers’ control.
I think I smiled as I stopped in front of a cemetery filled with colorful lights.
“Hello, Link.”
“Link, link, link, link, link, link.”
The location of the cemetery was really easy to recognize because there was a 3 meter tall megalithic statue modeled after Link.
“It’s been 300 years. “Has it been about 200 years with Fifi?”
“Okay, okay, okay.”
Fifi vigorously shook her bandaged wings, showing her joy for Link with her whole body.
Serwebon also gave off a miserable light several times, just like the moment we reunited after 300 years.
Then, as the wind rushed through the canyon, sunlight danced on Link’s face covered in moss and vines.
“Abba, it’s a stone man! “It’s amazing because it’s so big.”
“Aki, that’s not a stone person, it’s a stone statue.”
“Neungji, neungji, neungji.”
“Arung.”
At that time, when I saw Aki jumping up and jumping on Link’s shoulder, I couldn’t help but smile.
“It’s dangerous, so come down.”
I wonder if other people must have felt this way when they saw me riding Link’s horse. A kid riding on a giant’s neck.
“Aki chakchi!”
“Aruu!”
Hwangryong, who was wiggling on his shoulder, cheered as if he thought Aki’s landing was cool. Doesn’t Aki then shrug her shoulders in satisfaction?
‘Is it good that Aki has a younger sibling?’
I don’t like it at all.
Then, I felt someone smiling from somewhere… … .
My eyes opened wide for a moment when I looked at that side, and then a weak smile appeared.
Because Keyes was sitting on the graveyard where Baekchang Palace was leaning at an angle.
Pipi may have had the same vision as me, but she landed on Baekchang Palace with wings that were not yet fully developed and twitched her buttocks.
“It’s been a long time, a long time, a long time.”
As if responding to Fifi’s greeting, Baekchang Palace emitted a large, clear wave.
The leaves of the chestnut tree rustle refreshingly in the breath of the World Tree. The leaves were shaking, and light shimmered on Keyes’ face and Baekchang Palace.
It was around that time that stems and vines sprouted from the arch of Baekchang Palace. They began to intertwine in the air and create letters.
“Is this the letter you left me?”
As if in response, Keyes smiled with his wrinkled mouth.
I couldn’t tell whether it was an illusion created by the longing in my heart, or whether it was Keyes’ residual resignation embodied by Baek Chang-gung’s vitality.
I had no intention of using Bell Sidious to check that.
Right now, I was happy just thinking about being with Keyes at this noon fountain with the scent of fruit dancing in the sea breeze.
I want to savor the scent of this memory.
“Can I read it?”
I asked Keyes, who was originally unable to speak, what answer he would give out of courtesy, and he nodded lightly.
“Do you want to read the link together?”
Did Baek Chang-gung give life to the statue, or was it just an illusion? … Link was standing to the right of Keyes.
Haha, I smiled brightly.
Both of them looked quite old, not like they used to be. His hair is gray and his face is full of fine wrinkles.
It occurred to me that it was the depth of time that separated me and those two people, and for a moment I had to feel a sense of pitiful sadness.
After exchanging a light smile with the two, I looked at the words written by Baekchang Palace.
I read the heart left behind by a friend from 300 years ago.
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“Gungseong, have you never resented this world?”
Every time I was asked such a question, I would vaguely answer with a smile.
But only to you, to you who taught me how to read, I want to teach you the truth.
The era in which I was born was an era in which the abyss stirred and the rule of dragons began to crack, causing many people to become devastated physically and mentally.
– Keith, my son.
His mother, a hunter’s wife, died of plague when Keyes was three years old.
And when he was eleven, he could not bear the violence of his drunken father and ran away from home.
I had my tongue pulled out in court while lyingly defending a friend who took care of me when I was wandering on the streets. Her friend was hanged on the gallows.
She was the 21-year-old woman I first loved.
[I thought that the only thing I could believe in was strength.]
The reason he had no choice but to suffer from his father’s violence and the reason he couldn’t save his friend was simply a lack of strength.
Therefore, he devoted himself to archery, the only legacy he inherited from his father.
Traveling all over the country, I shot an arrow in search of something strong.
Aside from eating and sleeping, all I did was shoot a bow.
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By the time 10 years had passed, the world was calling me the best palace of the continent. The emperor of the time called me and gave me the position of palace chief.
“That’s amazing, how can you drink so much and still be good at shooting an arrow?”
The order is wrong.
Without alcohol, without it erasing the painful past, I couldn’t focus and focus.
My mother who died when I was young.
A father who was afraid.
At the end, the death of my friend who looked me straight in the eyes and cried out for help.
Once my desire for power was fulfilled, everything became frighteningly meaningless.
Since I was always addicted to alcohol, the emperor probably thought I was a nuisance, so he had me participate in the last warrior’s party as a representative of the empire.
‘It’s actually good. I don’t want to live anymore anyway. It’s the perfect place to die.’
And there I met you.
Although he is a genius wizard, he is too young and his personality has many quirks, so I thought he was a troublemaker in some school and was driven to death.
I felt strange.
At first, I kept my eyes on you because I thought you looked like me, but I soon realized that wasn’t the case.
– Keith, come here. I will teach you the letters.
– Keyes, this is Touraina. Are you a disciple? What are you talking about? It’s just a nuisance.
– Keyes, teach me how to cook too.
You were just pure enough to not have a single stain on it. I was just not honest about things between people.
While pretending to be blunt, he smiles brighter than anyone else, and pretends not to be interested in others, but is more attentive than anyone else.
And deep within his heart, he had ‘salt’ that changed his surroundings to his own scent.
You were a shy kid at first, but by the time five years had passed, you had become an adult who inherited the light of Lista and Friede.
– Me, I want to have a child someday.
When I look at you like that, an old voice comes into my head.
– A child who looks exactly like the two of us.
The words my friend who died on the gallows said to me with a shy smile, like fleeting soap bubbles.
– Will you teach that child many things? Don’t be influenced by this era.
And at some point, I realized.
The world is like you.
It could be dyed black or golden. If only I could guide and teach you correctly.
‘Then isn’t there still hope in this world?’
I’m just a monster who has no choice but to live a life of addiction, but when I come to my senses, I’m a fool who turns out to be just like my father.
If only I could save you, who has overcome all the pain of your childhood, and send you to the future.
If only I could help you become an adult.
I thought that one day the world would be like what my childhood friends and I wanted.
– I must win… … .
But it was you who sent us to the future at a desperate moment.
It would be painful, it would be painful because of the miasma eating away at my entire body, and I would be distraught with the fear that everything I had achieved so far would be cut short in my younger days.
You smiled at us at the end. She smiled like a spring flower blooming.
– I’ll be back… … .
What is so happy?
Aren’t we resentful of the world? The one that made you die when you were young… … .
Before that question could be completed, you disappeared somewhere for an indefinite period of time.
When I returned to the Empire, I thought about the meaning of the smile you made on the last day.
It was about a month after returning to the Empire that I recovered from the shock of not believing everything.
You were not in the future you created.
The moment I realized that, I cried silently for a week day and night.
The day there were no more tears to shed, I promised myself. I promised myself that I was originally addicted to alcohol and was waiting to die.
I will move into the future.
So, one day when you return, I will definitely push your back so you can move forward into the future.
[Look, after I die, I will hand over Baekchang Palace to the most outstanding among my relatives and disciples. The successor must also pass on the bow to future generations with the same standards as I did.]
When I left a will using the letters Lin taught me, I attached one condition to it.
Serwebon’s successor must dedicate himself endlessly for Rin to return someday.
And the day Rin returns, he must use that power for Rin.
[However, anyone whose mind is even slightly distorted will not be chosen by Serwebon, no matter how talented they are.]
What I raised in the future you created was not a disciple. What was born is not a blood relative.
They were the ones who would carry on my will.
I am old and sick and can no longer follow your journey through life.
Still, if only Serwebon, who knows my will, and someone who has inherited my will, could lend a hand on my behalf when you need help.
Because I thought it would definitely be a beautiful thing.
[Lin, where are you now?]
I would like to end this letter thinking that this letter I received from you is you.
Even now, the memories of you and the flower fields I saw together at dusk remain clear even to this last day.
As I got older, countless memories faded away. Now I can’t even remember the faces of my mother, father, or friends.
[Has it reached my heart?]
Did the last words I write reach your heart when you were young and gave up your life for us?
I gave birth to offspring, raised disciples, and passed on everything about myself, but was my heart also conveyed?
But it’s really strange.
Doesn’t it seem like the Osarius school, which grew from your dead nourishment, shines more dazzling than my school, which I, the living, gave water and raised?
No, this means something different.
The smile you showed me at the end became the nourishment for my life, and was able to raise my heart.
Link was also like me, saying that he would pass down his weapons to his descendants.
While Friede was pondering the method, it was said that he had completed a certain magic technique just before Link died. If the gods allow it, he will be able to meet Link as well.
It would be too much to convey Link’s feelings through my writing, but I believe he must have felt the same way as I did.
I would like to stop recounting my insignificant life and tell you my true feelings.
In the future you sent me to, just thinking about your smile helped me not drink.
I just wanted to say this one last time.
* * *
Baekchanggung sprouted new shoots into the air, breaking the series of letters it had created.
Lane looked at it in silence for a while, then bit his lip and started crying.
Quietly, for a long time.
Wow, the sea breeze blowing pleasantly, shaking the leaves, caressed my cheek. Sunlight caressed his head.
In the harmony of nature, a mysterious sight passed by the eyes of the yellow dragon that was twitching on Aki’s head.
【Keys and Link.】
Was it just a hallucination seen by a young dragon, or was it a momentary miracle made possible by the young man’s earnest wish?
【They each stroke Lin and Fifi’s heads and exchange smiles.】
I don’t know if that’s true or not, but perhaps, no, definitely, the young man and the beast felt the same warmth.
fantasy,
