Dark Iron Incident

The fallen tree stumps were already somewhat decayed. After so many years, someone finally picked them up one by one and re-erected them next to the orchard that no longer had any crops.Zalien walked slowly on the muddy ground. He didn't know how long the children who had temporarily avoided the limelight stayed here, but now there was only a mess left, with no human habitation at all.

After washing the small wooden table that had been lying, lying, sitting, and even standing with water, I sighed at its firmness, and then walked to the closed wooden house.Knocked on the door twice, even though he knew he would not get any response, he still thought about the voice that sounded like he had just woken up——

"Wait a moment."

Yes...that's the tone...

Zallion gasped, backed up again and again, and fell on the still wet wooden table.

"... Mrs. Kan... Mrs. Kanna?"

The wooden door creaked open, and the face behind the door was the one in his dream.

"—Ms. Kan—Nav—!?——Really—really—really you!?" Zallion was blank for a few minutes like a human being, before he felt that his heart was still there. jumping.

"...It feels so good to see you again... my dear." Kanna also showed a very shallow smile on her sad face.Slowly she came out of the darkness, and Zalyon realized that her right hand was gone from the shoulder.

"... Ma'am..." He rushed up, staring at the wound in a daze.

"I told you that there is always a way to survive..." Kanna said mockingly, "It's the same even if it's God's punishment. I've been through God's punishment twice, but I don't know if there will be any blessings—— "

Zalyon hugged her, but because he was not tall enough, his head could only rest a little under her chest.After a long pause, although he really wanted to remind him that this posture was not elegant, the old man still sat down on his side and let him hug him enough.

"...I thought...I thought I lost you..."

"I have done a lot of great things for this eternal life, and this little thing wants to kill me?"

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry I didn't go to you... I'm sorry... I'm sorry, ma'am..."

The ice child's voice was the same as when he was crying, but Kanna knew he couldn't cry no matter how sad he was, so she patted him on the back to make him feel better.

"Why, do you have to come and save me engraved in big characters on my head? You don't have to think so, dear, I can protect myself. Do you understand?"

"...um...um..." nodded aggrievedly, "but I...but I should go to you...I already...I lost my mother..."

The old man hurriedly cleared his throat, and pushed the other party away a little. She didn't want to shed tears that young people would shed in front of the brat.

"...Does it still hurt?...Demigod did it?"

"You mean this? Well, no." Glancing at the shoulder, "I cut it myself."

"--lady!!?"

"The cages of the abyss are all locked. As long as the guards stare at me, old bones like me will undoubtedly die. The demigods are fine because Zeus gave them bracelets made of cage fragments, and those stupid guards will not kill them. Defined as a fugitive."

"……treacherous!"

"What's even more treacherous is that if you kill those bastards, it is equivalent to execution or release, and the bracelet will not take effect until the next time the entrance is opened to admit prisoners." Kanna continued, "My sense of demon presence is already very strong. Low, I can escape with this hand. If you want to know the details, I chopped it into small pieces and stuffed them into every locked cage. The guards couldn't tell which side I belonged to... "

"Stop it, stop it, ma'am." Zalien closed his eyes.

"I don't care, why are you dizzy. Look, I'm not alive now?" The centaur showed a tired but gentle smile, "Tell me about you. I heard that you saved the World Destroyer."

"……Um……"

"Is he all right?"

"Should...should get better soon, I think he just needs recuperation time..."

"……you sure?"

"Of course it's a good thing he responds to my voice, isn't it?"

"Speaking of which you don't like very much," Kanna stood up, covering the severed arm with a robe, "everyone thought he was dead."

"...but he's alive. He'll be alive. He'll recover soon. It won't be long, ma'am, it won't be long."

"Did you know that no matter where he goes in the abyss of the Earth Mother, he will use his blood of the underworld to ignite his black flame?"

"...No... I don't know..." Zallion remembered the strange experience of having a headache in all directions in the abyss, and only then did he know the reason.

"A lot of guys survived - if they did - thanks to him...he saved me. He saved Hydra. But he was never seen again, I thought……"

"He won't die."

"It's a good thing for you to think so, my boy, but you also have to know—"

"He won't die, even if he dies, he will come back to life!" Zalian pulled off his blue clothes, and the blue marks were imprinted on his chest, as if branded on it, "...I am the one of bronze." The limiter of the covenant. I exchanged his life."

The centaur raised its head slightly, covered its mouth with its intact hand, and was speechless for a long time.

"After I... after I knew he went in for the first time... I made this deal..."

"……Honey……"

"At that time, I always felt that I owed him a lot, and I wanted to change him back... and then... I owe him nothing."

Kanna raised her eyebrows and thought about this sentence: "... At that time?"

"Now... I seem to understand something... I understand... Who gave me the right to bet my life without any scruples. I would rather die than suffer pain... I think I am That's right, I'm the brave one, I said he, I said he was a coward..." Zalien closed his eyes tightly, "But I never knew..."

"Look at me, dear." The old man cupped his face with his left hand, "...Since he is alive, he will get better. Don't be so sad."

"... Mmm-mm! He'll be fine!"

"That bet is over. You have already decided on each other's ending. When things get to that point, it's over."

"...But I..."

"However, there is always a beginning after the end. Either a new face, or a new you. You can't go back, and he can't return to the original appearance. You have too much to change and learn. He has it, and you have it. You have to grow up, my child... You have to learn to share, learn to move forward with others. If you never lift your head and move forward on your own, no matter how strong and loving the person who pulls you You will also be dragged down by you... Do you understand what I mean?"

Zallion's heart suddenly calmed down. He looked into those bright eyes and nodded his head very firmly.Although Clegane had loved someone before, the one who had 'lived' him, now, he found he didn't care.

... Clegane loves me now, doesn't he.

"Well... this is a good start... If I said these words to you 50 years ago, you would have shook your head and yelled at me that you couldn't understand."

"...Cough..." The boy puffed up his chest, "Let's not talk about him, I came to see you, ma'am. The wound... do you need any medicine for the wound, I can get it for you?"

"It seems that I haven't seen you for a while, and you have forgotten what I know."

"If you want, I can make you an ice arm and inject some strength. Don't worry, it will work just like the original one..."

"Hmm, good suggestion, but what's wrong with keeping it like this," Kanna said heartily, "There is always something to lose, and it's just an arm."

"I'll take you to Luanying Forest to rest, madam."

"Well... look here... how much I have to deal with! I always feel like a goblin has come to spoil my orchard, don't you think?"

"..."

No, not a goblin...

"I hope I can be busy, don't worry about me, I can recover after a while, it's not too difficult." The centaur patted Bing's head, "Not only can I recover, but I can also listen to you want to say."

"... Wait until you feel better first, I hope you are also healthy and happy..."

"It's quite pleasing to see you like this," the old man laughed. "It seems that you have learned a lot."

"lady……"

"uh-huh?"

"...You told me that false love always has other plans. But in retrospect, when you find the clues, you will suddenly let go..."

"...It's that easy, it's self-defeating."

"So, what about true love?"

"I don't know."

Zallion raised his head, just in time to laugh at the old man.

"...This is not fun..."

"Okay, okay," she exhaled a breath in her heart, and felt that the scenery in front of her was a little more beautiful.Then he put his bony hand on the child's shoulder and said softly, "I can't tell you what true love looks like, but there is one thing I can be sure of..."

"what?"

"Your love is true."

The sharp cone monsters could turn the Luanying Forest into a new ocean. They embraced the Winter Lord who untied the ice and snow. People who didn't know thought that they had been enslaved for thousands of years and finally ushered in liberation.

Zalien didn't understand. These guys could live tenaciously in the barren land of Kabruheim for so long, why are they crying to him now? Didn't they leave a piece of land for them at that time? ?

On the contrary, he thought that the human beings who could not kneel down had no violent reaction. When he felt strange and ran to the village to inquire about the news, he found that there were not many people left in the village. The place was empty, and all the young people rushed to Emerging country.When the elderly look at the spring that only appeared in childhood and fairy tales, there are no surprises, but some panic and bewilderment. They don't know what to sow in spring, what to wear, and dare not go out by themselves.Their timidity is not unreasonable, after all, the recent world is not peaceful for anyone—for monsters, it is the gods who do evil, for the gods, it is humans who do evil, and for humans, it is monsters who do evil... No matter who wins in the end Whoever loses will turn the world upside down.

Although I feel lost, it may be a good thing to think about it. Without these human beings, the forest that I have reborn will definitely shine.

Although his heart had already flown back to Kelin Volcano, he still patiently dealt with the things that should be dealt with one by one. He could no longer be like before, always thinking about what to do and what to do, without considering any consequences.