The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 350

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Part 2, Chapter 148

“But Lu. How did you recognize my face?”

Lu answered as if I was asking something obvious.

“I have eyes too.”

“What a stupid answer. Of course you have eyes, did you think I was asking about that? Right now I’m not in Dian’s appearance, that’s why I’m asking.”

After maintaining silence for a moment, Lu asked me back.

“Ash, what kind of person are you?”

I stepped on the deeply sinking sand and looked back at the wall that stretched long to my left.

A wall that was solid and high, rough and coarse – a unity of body and mind. Naturally, my face wasn’t reflected in that wall.

How could I break this wall? I lifted Lu higher on my back and answered.

“Just ordinary. My appearance… light brown hair and light green eyes.”

“…”

“Um, and… born on Queen’s Island in the Southern Empire, about a span taller than average. My favorite food is… what is there. Potatoes?”

“…”

“I’m left-handed but confident with a sword.”

“How boring. You’re telling me stories I already know again. You’re just like those old men with arthritis who threw fits about going to the battlefield. Is it inevitable when you get old?”

“Who’s the one living long enough to be past the age of smearing shit on walls?”

“Don’t tell me stories about myself that I don’t know. I’m not interested.”

“Good heavens.”

“Why?”

“You keep repeating the same things now as you did back then. You really grew up exactly like when you were little. It’s like a carbon copy. See? I got goosebumps on my arm.”

Lu let out a hollow laugh.

“Stupid talk. Don’t you know the saying that people die when they change? I won’t die because I don’t change.”

At least young Lu definitely has less luck than adult Lu. Yes, this familiar feeling… a forgotten memory is trying to surface dimly.

Come to think of it, you used to call me green eyes because you said my face looked blurry, you little brat Lu.

“If you know me so well, why did you ask?”

“Because I can’t see you clearly.”

Can’t see me?

“It was like that over there, and it’s the same here. Yes… it can’t be helped. The current you must be an existence I created through delusion.”

What? I was Lu’s delusion?

‘That’s not right.’

Why would he think that?

Was it because of the place? Maybe it was because of the situation.

The last appearance of Lu, the leader of the rebel army that I remember… was dying after swallowing Calepa’s heart.

“Stop that damn slave talk, you idiot! If you want to keep being bound like that, then serve me as your master! If you understand, swallow Calepa’s heart right now and become a deity to serve me for life!”

“Alright, master.”

Was that why? I didn’t want to argue against Lu’s judgment that mistook me for a fantasy.

“Remember, Ash. The moment I return, if you’re not there.”

“Then… even I can’t be sure what I’ll do to you.”

Ah, no. I absolutely shouldn’t hear such warnings!

As I wiped cold sweat from remembering unnecessary things, Lu behind me muttered in a lower voice as if lost in thought.

“You told me to become a deity. In the end, it meant to die.”

“…”

“Then am I dead now? I don’t seem to be in a normal state. This damn wall keeps appearing no matter how much I break it.”

“Don’t complain too much. This wall is the last one.”

“Last or not, it’s meaningless if I can’t get over it.”

Saying that, Lu got down from my back.

Standing side by side, he gazed at me with eyes that had become clearer than before.

“I have to return alive. Only then can I meet the real you, not this fake.”

A hand reached toward my face, slowly tracing all my features, and Lu’s gaze examined every aspect of me thoroughly.

Even so, I didn’t feel like our eyes were meeting. Probably because, as Lu said, my face appeared blurry to his eyes.

“But being like this… makes me think it’s okay as it is now. Pathetically.”

Lu stepped back with a self-deprecating smile and turned away without hesitation.

“Don’t make me weak and disappear from my sight, Ash.”

Soon he began slowly climbing the hill ahead of me.

He didn’t need anyone’s help. It was such a Lu-like attitude that rather than feeling hurt, I found it a little amusing.

But I’m not fake.

Besides, our destination is in the same direction. If I was going to leave anyway, I wanted to follow behind while looking at Lu’s back rather than crossing the desert alone.

I walked following his footsteps at a slight distance. Even when strong sandstorms blew from the front, Lu’s pace didn’t slow at all. Looking only straight ahead, he showed no wavering or hesitation.

How much time passed like that?

After a fierce whirlwind swept through the area so violently it was hard to stand, and the high hill was gradually carved away by the wind.

The hot swamp surrounded by black fog, which had felt so distant, began to appear close at hand.

Lu’s direction remained unchanged. His unwavering advance seemed almost as if he were possessed.

Continuing to walk, and walk, and walk to the end.

Just as Lu’s steps were about to reach a space he shouldn’t enter…

I blocked Lu’s path.

“Stop, Lu.”

Eyes that made me long for him just by looking turned toward me.

This was the end of the desert.

No more sandstorms blew, and instead of the sun’s heat that stung the eyes, humid air thick enough to slow breathing filled the area.

The Black Fog Swamp. In front of that entrance leading to space, I warned Lu.

“This isn’t ground for you to step on. Back away.”

Lu asked back with eyes that couldn’t understand at all.

“Why?”

It was a strangely familiar question and situation somehow.

Why is it familiar? Why on earth, facing Lu who had changed to be thoroughly rational without a trace of childishness, do I feel like laughing instead of worrying?

I pondered deeply.

“Because I don’t allow it.”

At this crossroads, Lu.

“I don’t need your permission to become free from fate, Ash.”

What did Lu… do to me.

“You fool, why don’t you need it? I’m your master.”

The memory came back easily.

I pulled Lu’s face toward me and pressed my lips to his.

Feeling the warm temperature made me laugh again. Mmm…, right. This was that feeling. This good feeling and also, you… Lu, you always…

I slowly parted my lips.

I see the face of a beautiful man.

Stroking his pale face, looking into it, feeling it, then embracing his broad chest and deeply breathing in his familiar scent.

“It’s okay now.”

“…”

“Really.”

The ground collapses.

The desert area shakes, and Lu’s form in my arms begins to distort beyond recognition.

Lu’s warm starlight embraced me.

As if… to stop here like this.

As if telling me to open my eyes again.

“Now I understand. The fake isn’t me but you, Lu. You who always stays within me.”

Whoosh-

Lu, who had embraced me, scatters into small particles of light.

I silently watched the starlight that scattered like dust settle on the sand.

My final lingering attachment.

My lingering attachment had come to find me in its most vulnerable form. How could I dare push him away?

But I had to push him away.

If we became light together like this, I surely wouldn’t be able to return to space and would have gone back to my original life.

Then Lu’s heart would stop again too.

Everything would become meaningless.

Suddenly, the trembling of the earth stopped.

Whiiing-

The particles of starlight that had settled on the sand began to circle the ground endlessly, as if they had lost their way. I looked at them with puzzlement.

‘Since I died, the power of Lu remaining within me should return to Lu, its original owner… why can’t it return?’

I raised my head.

Then the massive wall had disappeared without a trace, and a single small door stood embedded like a pillar, facing me.

A door without a handle.

‘I see. It couldn’t open the door because there was no handle.’

I examined the starlight particles that couldn’t step outside the door and remained in place, then turned around to look at my surroundings.

Ah! I can see it over there.

Above those distant snowy mountains.

Another door with a handle was waiting for me. The moment I recognized its existence, I instinctively realized.

If I cross this irreversible path, advance to distant space, and open that door.

The door without a handle that was blocking Lu would also open.

My end would be Lu’s beginning.

Then there was no reason to hesitate.

“Wait here, Lu. I’ll open the door for you soon.”

I stepped beyond the Pantheon and took my first step into the death I had finally reached.

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