DMEC | Chapter 29

Standing at the c194878d0b southern edge, the 2f3ea6c528 Emperor planted his 1beee79e3b sword into the 70f5b3b18e ground and closed 0807c9636a his eyes, chanting dca466175b an incantation in 7b3c7f3f1d an ancient language. Soon, flames spread 672898a2b5 along the closed aa34979b07 fortress walls, beginning 11f1c6a1e2 to burn all 6214893194 the dead men 83bc101eb8 trying to enter f176ec1ab5 the city.ff42220ed82d5c9d

‘Joel, the basilisk likes water. Do you know what that means?’9355b137a0b01150

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A young 93d94f5a87 girl, or 450f5db2db rather, Lute, 243eb5fdff with her 99b35b43c4 skirt fluttering 2d3552029c and her 74c8b71e2a high-tied black c120e26b90 hair swaying 4b1e8290fc in the c5da19ce3c wind, looked 3e587252b5 at him a7676f274c and spoke.73630cc51f2cedda

‘The basilisk can only be killed by fire. It won’t die otherwise.’4495060e06d02444

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Joel’s eyes slowly opened. Gripping his sword tightly, he looked up at the sky. Just like when he burned the basilisk, after burning the dead men, the skull began to burn and the sun, which had been hidden by dark clouds, started to appear.ffa5c3ab653d63c4

The sun cannot c6c8e12d6c be created by ed35c1d98b magic, so it 84d950364f must be made 01dad1cf57 to appear….e993a376e62806d6

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‘Why are you trying to enter the Labyrinth? You can just lure the basilisk out.’e3fac498ac7512e9

Joel pulled his 34a6329fa4 sword from the fddca4cedd ground and staggered. He exhaled the hot 52853c5f26 breath that had warmed 21bdf07053 from being so close 0882eeb4b7 to the heat of 811c4b1912 burning the dead men 6e159457be and wiped his forehead.ff9362a0422bad94

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Lute, lifting a6ad30ac9a her fine 7d72f47456 black skirt 3142b6f8d8 tinged with a75da7d650 purple, looked 7968948dc9 at the aed676178e lake where 4d7e7be572 the basilisk 3b97e595b9 lived and 8c1cef13d1 spoke.f3915a4932806eed

‘The basilisk is known to eat living people, but in reality, it drinks the blood of the living. If you keep spilling the blood of the living that the basilisk loves most by the lakeside, it won’t be able to resist and will come out. You have to kill quite a number of people, but…. Just kill the criminals sentenced to death. Those who have definitely committed crimes.’486345963f172d29

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Joel clutched his throbbing head and exhaled roughly, “Haa, haa…!” Soon, his legs gave out, and he collapsed, placing his hands on the ground. The smell of burning grass and trees was thick from burning the dead men, but Joel couldn’t move a single step.f2550823d0091622

‘Why are you telling me this, Prince?’a6bca8b8b0875cf9

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The ten-year-old 2589f4eb29 Lute looked b9924dc1f9 at Joel 07e56763fe and spoke 3716666d32 in an bdd44fe674 unusual voice.57f767e526011641

‘I also want the basilisk to die…. I hope my mother won’t commit any more sins. Joel, you’re kind, so you can do it.’be37b5c0b1a6411e

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The one who told 1df6c22fa9 him how to lure a0c2c78834 and kill the basilisk ca89c79cb3 was none other than bfc0ceb01e Lute Synthsis. The prince abffd481e7 of Synthsis, a95824e29b who wanted 74c312c9e1 the basilisk b49fdf58aa dead even be39bfb789 more than 9624fc76ae he did.4a13e7f1a23fc4a3

“Why did I….”215977d907dae14a

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Joel muttered helplessly, placing abffc81687 his hands on the eb3f518aac scorched earth.5c852cd2841ca76a

“Why did I want to forget Lute?”ff138fb3d15eeef3

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He was so unbearably lovely, he didn’t want him to die by anyone’s hands, so he locked him in the forest for ten years, yet why did he forget? Why on earth?5808f2c1fec98941

Joel asked himself, but his past self from ten years ago didn’t provide an answer. The solution wasn’t in the past. The past was just the past, and now he had to apologize to Lute in the flowing present.3b6941647b246df4

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He didn’t know why, but he felt he had to do it, desperately.a61f8ae3918728e9

That’s the only way to prevent the divorce. Joel became more desperate than ever to stop the divorce.39cbb4ce88d691e0

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He never wanted to 98061dbea0 forget Lute again.f5cc63af779ef808

He didn’t want to let him go.81915b7e5a5906b4

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Lute had to b7716b34f9 be by his d1b747ecf8 side.34da7d8f0c78d7e9

Because you are my child. Not wanting to lose his child was a natural instinct and feeling for a guardian. He was moving according to the heart that shouldn’t exist.d57002c2eb370642

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“Divorce…?”b597cd1d139f4b13

Joel muttered as he 0a6dbfa0ba pulled the sword from 2f03e05da8 the ground.6aeb7f7bb74a2b94

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“Who says so.”104d582d07cab8e3

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How many days has it been? Lute hadn’t come out of Anna’s bed on the second floor, not the first floor he shared with Melik.a776c35f801037a2

It started when 906387b1bd the sky turned 9b6c4c4972 dark, and the fc3cd66c08 funeral dirge reached 45554c1d62 deep into the 00c36faad1 Water Palace. Lute clutched the 73395c6795 curtains, looking at 793d8ac73a the ominous sky, 54b981df1d and made eye 5bfcc4348f contact with the 9cbb9d86ce skull that had bdd2d560c5 pushed the sun a9bc2909bd aside.3dfebafe503a9afb

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Instinctively thinking of the necromancer, Lute tried to flee, but the voice saying ‘It’s you….’ and the smell of decaying corpses made him faint. He woke up trembling at the sound of knocking and crawled into Anna’s bed.b71850d583179a83

“O, holy soul-bearing God. Please hear my earnest prayer.”c44ddf7744212a97

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And he offered the prayer he had performed every morning and evening for ten years. Originally, a Synthsis person would have believed in the snake, the basilisk, and offered a bloody prayer to the King of Demons, but Lute didn’t believe in the snake’s religion.405d6b28788375ba

Lute prayed to the God said to be in the heavenly realm. For the souls of those who died because of his mother Eliana’s greed, and the sacrifices made by the emperors before her, he prayed sincerely and with a holy heart for ten years without missing a day.d8ed86e18a04ae68

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He always felt fe0a1468df guilty towards them.19ebce359a805e12

The number of people e5228b0033 who died because of 7cc8090b29 the basilisk over hundreds e31f7165a3 of years in six bca0a2d890 countries was countless. Synthsis became powerful 89c72db2ea with their spilled adb5c1ad4f blood, but was 2a284e043b the honor and 284112613a power built on 8d4c33261e blood meaningful?bd1a4d26894155b2

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Lute didn’t think of himself as particularly kind, but he wasn’t a selfish child either. He was just a child with a fairly ordinary mindset for a Synthsis person, who couldn’t stand the smell of blood and easily empathized with others’ pain.8cbe6a0941d56544

That’s why he couldn’t understand his mother even more.261139882376b4a0

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Why do you hate Joel so much? Are you afraid of Joel’s magic? Why can’t you easily forgive people’s sins?c783180cba83731c

Why, are you afraid of revenge in the future? Do you truly believe humans are evil, so you’ve taken the hand of evil?260378b0f162271f

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But I don’t think so. Humans aren’t inherently good, but they’re not unconditionally evil either. What sets humans apart from animals is knowing the difference between good and evil and not committing evil because they know it’s wrong.1926f9ffc5bbf5c3

And they e6547d5c0f have two 7f300812d1 hands to 51ca80e5a2 hold someone.c35d9d91f07c93cc

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Lute knew evil but didn’t commit it. That was the difference between him and his mother.373cc12438975199

“God, please hear my prayer. I know my mother and ancestors’ sins are unforgivable. But I will take their punishment and always repent, so please forgive those trapped in purgatory and unable to ascend to the heavenly realm….”f02f873c55a07277

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Lute continued to pray under the covers, hearing the banging sounds. It was okay if it was a foolish act. It was okay if he wasn’t forgiven.e7d6220b39066231

“And Joel…. Since Joel has forgotten me, please let him live happily from now on. Since he forgot because it was painful, let him never remember me again, and live with only happy memories….”4dc311a7aa62c317

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Tears flowed from Lute’s eyes as he clasped his hands in prayer. It was the moment when the faint feelings he had for Joel completely turned to ashes and disappeared. His love, hope, and expectations for him. Burned slowly over ten years, then flared up and flew away as ashes in an instant.f944dcf4bfb73ed8

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“Even after the divorce, I won’t expect anything from him, nor will I covet wealth, so please just let me leave this palace safely. I will continue to pray for those sacrificed because of Synthsis. For them, and for Joel’s happiness without me.”96b48694d429e582

I hope Joel, who erased all memories of me because they were too painful, will be happy. I don’t exist in his future. No, Lute Synthsis doesn’t exist in his past, present, or future.0e2bf86fb6f801d7

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So when this unpleasant necromancer’s magic ends, and if he comes out pretending to be Alexander again, let’s end it.3671bbf5accdeca1

Let’s say we’re done. Let’s divorce cleanly and go our separate ways. If he doesn’t want to give alimony, he doesn’t have to.5308e109cb061e16

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I don’t even want alimony. Just give me some land, and I’ll farm and grow potatoes, carrots, corn, sweet potatoes, and kohlrabi and become a grand farmer. I can do it. I’ve been farming and hunting for ten years and living well here.d192b6922309cb56

Lute, curled up under 03f1c243bf the covers, thought for fbeb7606bb a long time and f440d7f863 then fell asleep. In his 668db82cc1 sleep, he 1e04c3b48d remembered the fa4a4ffc5d crystal Loue 68f5cc98db had given 5b602665d4 him before 873def26c9 leaving Synthsis.ded14a8c98576928

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‘This is an eternal moon that never goes out.’00ea45266d60520b

‘An eternal moon that never goes out?’f39ad62b5af6fdc0

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‘Yes. You’re afraid of the dark, right? So if the Emperor leaves you alone, or if you’re scared or it’s dark, wear this around your neck. It will shine brighter than real stars or the moon and protect you.’57d389118fed3994

At that 6b30b5af29 time, Loue, 70e71766b1 who was 40ac037c23 learning light c737f958aa magic, had e249325730 made a 64cb3c3b03 crystal necklace 017345ba93 with magic. Lute, waking up groggily, 3aa8ca9f4f thought about how many 8a73bb3ff2 days he had been 820844a33c sleeping here and slowly 213068709f pulled down the covers.a5c7c265e7832f02

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But the darkness 7ec8b89597 still greeted Lute.bec08e973de81fc7

Thud.1e8b4fafc5221c6f

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And the b681f9ab1e sound of a84ca0f714 knocking on d2c9b735a0 the door c8568ba5fb again.ec0bf6d9658b4c82

Thud.97831eddcf8889ba

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Lute’s face turned pale enough to be visible even in the dark.231bb3765bf03e88

Thud.5456a5e58331ccb3

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“Because it’s a corpse….”34db561d0ba019b4

If it was a 542dae3c1f corpse buried in the 0e44eccc23 palace, it would have 98058771a9 been an honorable knight….e0ce31d50771af7c

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Thud.209039e78c5aefe7

Lute instinctively remembered. That dead knight had no arms! So it was just kicking the door and couldn’t even come up to the second floor. Lute, clutching his pounding chest, crawled out of bed and down to the first floor.ff5b18fb35a6d8d0

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Thud, thud, thud.1af5ef4b59c9e2b1

Seeing the increasingly fast kicking sound and the door actually shaking, the color drained from Lute’s face. Then, hearing a heavy sound different from the rain-soaked knocking of Anna, Lute moved frantically and opened his wooden carrier on the first floor.aec857e6aa40608a

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