Fantasies That Descend on Collapse

"Ugh..."

He sighed softly, and as the lights in the theater turned on, he just stood up from his seat with a calm expression, then turned and left without looking back.

However, he who had already started to leave, was stopped by Teresa's call full of incredible emotions.

"Karen...Mom?!"

"what!"

The name that I will never forget, exclaimed through Teresa's mouth, and then passed into my ears, and drove his body to look suddenly towards the place where the sound came from.

Immediately, what appeared in his field of vision was the man in a gown, half kneeling on the gravel, holding the comatose amber in his arms...

"Karen..."

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"Karen!"

Facing this unexpected and sudden change in front of him, Otto, who thought he could keep absolute calm under any circumstances, completely lost all reason the moment he caught sight of the other party.

Otto, who was at the back of the theater, shouted the other party's name, and then flipped over the seat blocking his way without any image, and then ran towards the stage with his arms raised high and his face frantic.

Yes, he still remembers, he still remembers the information that the other party told him at that time, he still remembers everything he was lucky enough to see at that time, and...

The information I got from the other party that time was indeed correct...

"...?"

'Karen', who was half kneeling on the gravel before, seemed to have failed to understand the environment she was in, but suddenly raised her head when she heard Otto's shout.

And the line of sight between the two of them was also intertwined suddenly at this moment.

"!"

Almost at the moment when he saw Otto running towards him, the other party, who was half kneeling on the gravel, got up suddenly with a panicked expression, and immediately hugged the unconscious Otto in his arms. Amber hurried towards the exit of the backstage of the theater.

"Wait, please don't run! Fu Hua stop her for me!"

Seeing that the other party was about to enter the backstage a few steps away and completely disappear from his field of vision, Otto could only signal loudly to Fu Hua, who was also on the stage and was relatively close to the other party.

"Wait...Otto you...?"

Fu Hua, who hadn't fully understood what was going on at first, and seemed a little distracted, when he heard Otto's call, turned his head and looked at him almost subconsciously.

And it was this tiny move that caused Fu Hua to lose the best chance to stop the opponent.

Looking at the 'Kalen' who had already crossed Fu Hua and came to the exit gate, he realized that if he didn't want to intercept the opponent, maybe he...would have to watch the opponent disappear in front of him again. in front of...

"Sorry..."

He apologized to the other party in a low voice, then stretched out his palm towards the back of the other party, and then... nothing happened.

The empty hands indicated that the activation of Void and Ten Thousand Zang had failed. He looked at his arms that were stretched out horizontally, and then had some doubts for a moment.

"why...?"

He murmured in a low voice, as if he was expecting the other party's response, but after many attempts to no avail, he finally gave up trying to find out what was wrong with the other party at this moment.

After all, the current him...has no spare energy to think about other things...

Seeing that the opponent had entered the exit and completely disappeared from his field of vision, he just stepped forward again in panic and followed.

And doing this is just to prevent the other party from...disappearing in front of me again...

Chapter 19

He followed the figure that turned into a ghost, and climbed up the stairs that should be leading to the upper floor with all his strength.

The strides started to lose their original neat rhythm amidst the chaotic thoughts, and the figure that could barely remain in sight gradually began to disappear at the opposite end of the seemingly endless stairs.

He stretched his arms forward and opened his mouth vigorously, wanting to use this as a bargaining chip for him to keep the other party.

But all he could touch with his arm was the void that had lost everything before his eyes, and because of the chaotic thoughts in his mouth, he didn't know what kind of sound to make.

After all, the things in his sight still left him completely, but when he looked at the climbing stairs that would only lead to one end, the choice he made was to keep going.

Stepping on the seemingly endless stairs leading to the peak, thinking about the steps that only he created alone, the heart that should be able to maintain reason all the time, but at this moment it seems so restless disturbed.

After all, the steps he followed and the journey of climbing finally came to the end of the two that seemed to never appear in the long time he thought.

Standing on the last step, looking at the door that was closed tightly in front of him, with a little light leaking from the crack of the door, he just stretched out his hand to hold the doorknob, but made no other movements.

The completely closed but unlocked door in front of me was nothing more than an existence that everyone had the right to touch in the past.

But it was such an insignificant existence that made him, who had experienced countless storms, uncontrollably develop fear.

Now he stands alone in front of the gate of truth, and he can open the gate with just a turn of his wrist, so that he can glimpse the hidden behind the gate, which he has pursued hard all his life, but never let it reappear. truth.

But... is that really the truth that I expected and wanted to see?

An inexplicable question appeared in his heart, and made him stop his wrist that had already gripped the doorknob and was about to start turning at the same time.

He was puzzled, pondering, and wanted to find out the tiny details that he had ignored or failed to notice from the inexplicably sprouting doubts.

But his wrist, which was holding the doorknob tightly, turned slightly at this moment, wanting to help him face up to what he was thinking in his heart.

The sun was dazzling and the breeze was blowing on his face. When his eyes, which had escaped from the darkness, adapted to the sunlight and opened again, he saw everything behind the gate.

It's not the truth that made him feel inappropriate inexplicably before, but it can make him who is old and calm...

Paradise to fall for.

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The bright sky, the dilapidated roof, and the young lady standing on the edge, wearing a purple dress holding amber in both hands, and standing with her back to herself.

Long pure white hair, a purple-blue skirt, and the Dark Purple Night Crow mask with a few strands of feathers worn on top of the white hair like a hair accessory.

Although the other party was not facing him head-on, facing the scene in front of him, the question that had inexplicably sprouted in Otto's mind was inexplicably answered at this moment.

It was a feeling, a kind of consciousness that guided him to find the answer, but he who found the answer did not know what language to use to explain this feeling, and only he could understand it alone.

It allows him to accurately guess the identity of the other party even if he is only a few steps away, and has not yet confronted him face to face.

That's right, the person who is only a few steps away from me is the same person I met in that coincidence.

His originally uneasy thoughts began to become tense. He should be at the apex of the world, but inexplicably at this moment, he felt that he had turned back into the young boy who only dared to stay alone in the family courtyard.

And at that time, like this time, he was only a few steps away from the sun in his heart.

No, now is not the time to recall the past.

When he realized that his mind was starting to wander, Otto just supported his forehead with his hands. After trying to calm down his extremely tense thoughts, he just held his breath, took a step, and walked towards go forward.

Wait a minute, what should I say when I and the other party meet each other later?

He took a step that was only about half the distance of ordinary people, then stopped again, and once again fell into the inexplicable and extreme contemplation that was almost impossible to produce in the past.

Judging from the first meeting at the beginning, the other party should not know me at all, so the result of my rash approach now will only be to let the other party leave rashly.

So now, should I signal to the other party first, and then choose to approach, so as to start a conversation with the other party?But can I really let the other party have a good conversation with me with my so impolite actions?

So... what should I do now?

For Otto, who is almost omnipotent, this... should be the thing he is most bad at.

After tapping his forehead with his fingers in some annoyance, he just closed his eyes and thought about the solution in front of his mind, which was almost filled with all the knowledge. He didn't open it again until he got the answer for a moment. eyes.

Inexplicably, he suddenly felt fortunate that in his free time, he used to read the notes written by Shakespeare and not publicly recorded in the anthology from time to time.

After realizing what he was going to face next, Otto just took a deep breath, then looked at the person standing on the edge with his back turned to him, and then took his own steps forward again.

Then when the raised footsteps stepped on the ground, everything in front of him completely changed in an instant.

The blue world, the books in the sky, and the dark shadow standing in front of him, turning into a child, and pulling himself here without authorization.

"What do you want to do?"

Facing the dark shadow blocking him, Otto just frowned, his tone full of unkindness and irritation.

Even though the two have known each other for 500 years, Otto's attitude towards it has not changed in the slightest with the passage of time.

"Hi~"

Facing the anger from Otto, it just responded with a smile as usual, but at the next moment, on its face composed of shadows, the previous laughter was replaced by seriousness.

"Let me give you some advice."

It has a serious expression and a calm tone, as if to explain that what it said at this time is true.

"Don't go there."

"why?"

When hearing the advice from the other party, Otto just stared at the other party standing in front of him, wanting to know the reason why it gave this advice.

But... what it responded to Otto was just the usual, meaningless laughter.

"..."

The collapse of the world, the dissipation of shadows, looked as if it had never happened from the beginning, he just silently watched everything that happened in front of him, but he didn't take the advice he received earlier into his heart.

After all, he still failed to fully give his trust to this creature who had been with him for 500 years.

The only people he can trust completely are himself and that person.

After experiencing this accident, he only took his own steps for the third time, and once again set foot on the end he wanted to go to.

And this time on the road, after not encountering any obstacles, he also got his wish, and came to the distance from the other party, which was only a distance of one or two statures.

Looking at the person who was close at hand and could be touched by reaching out his hand, Otto just stood there calmly, and at the same time clenched his hands tightly.

"Karen... ah... no..."

He softly called the other person's name, but when recalling everything that happened when the two first met, she just closed her eyes and entered into a short thought.

After a long silence, he opened his eyes, and then mustered up the courage to speak.

"I'll take care of it, Luo..."

"Huh??!"*2

The first shout came from Luo Chen who, after hearing Otto's answer, turned around hastily while holding Amber in his hands, his face flushed red by the other's words.

And the second shout that only one person could hear came from Karen who heard Otto's answer and was also shocked.