The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 357

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Part 2, Chapter 155

Just when I felt the vast raging typhoon was beginning to gradually subside.

Kwaaaaang-

A thunderous roar that could shake the heavens struck nearby. The impact was so intense that the already tattered building began swaying precariously with ominous sounds.

Skuld struggled with one arm to carry Daisy, who slept like a corpse, and evacuated outside.

“Cough, cough.”

A blurry silhouette was visible through the sand swirling like clouds. Skuld avoided the cracked earth, set Daisy down, and examined the source of this commotion.

An emotionlessly cold, frozen voice came through the hot shimmering heat waves.

“The reason I’ve been watching you is.”

Following that, blue hair trembling faintly was revealed beyond the distant view.

“Because I thought your existence would help her evolution.”

The man standing tall like Mount Tai had his hand roughly gripping someone’s nape.

“The reason I don’t kill you is.”

The one who offered his neck to him was covered in blood, no different from rags.

“Not because I fear some curse of the earth, but because there’s someone I must wait for even if it takes eternity.”

A pitiful sight unthinkable for the once-proud ruler of the Western Continent.

“No… Perhaps even that curse that envied the universe might be useless to me now.”

Though the opponent was someone who had coexisted for over a century, Lord Caleph showed not a shred of mercy toward him.

“How about it. You must be curious too, shall we check once?”

As tendons bulged on Lord Caleph’s hand with a bloody smile, Skuld convulsively rose and shouted.

“Stop, Lord Caleph! You mustn’t!”

At the urgent intervention, Lord Caleph’s movement stopped. Meanwhile, Spolia slowly turned his head and discovered Daisy lying as if dead.

“…She is.”

“…”

“She really is approaching death.”

“Don’t come near!”

Seeing those hollow eyes, I finally understood the situation.

Spolia still wanted Daisy even at this very moment.

“Spolia… I knew it, but you’re truly not in your right mind. Even after Sier Gat was ruined like that, are you still only pursuing your desires?”

Spolia, who had been looking down at Daisy’s face with unfocused eyes as if he had forever lost his earnest wish, parted his dry lips.

“Desire… Yes.”

He looked quite exhausted. No matter how excellent Sier Gat’s defensive magic was, it was natural since he had endured more than half the damage to the city that Rien had turned into ruins.

Skuld couldn’t understand at all.

His beloved city had become a mess. What could be so desperate that he would bring about such a situation?

Spolia continued speaking without taking his eyes off Daisy.

“There was one thing I really wanted to ask you, Kalerpa. Just how far do you desire to go? Where is the end of your greed?”

“…”

“Do you feel lacking even after becoming a perfect god? Or… is it because you became a perfect god that you can see what’s beyond?”

A perfect god.

Was he saying that the realm Spolia desired was somehow connected to this current situation?

Lord Caleph’s answer was cold.

“If you’re going to spout nonsense like a madman, just shut your mouth.”

“I discovered her first.”

Skuld reflexively observed Lord Caleph’s reaction. However, Lord Caleph had an indifferent expression as if it wasn’t worth responding to.

“I love her more.”

It should have been a heartfelt confession.

But the love that Spolia spoke of felt like nothing but sticky obsession, devoid of any tenderness. He touched his brow with a pained expression.

“I more…”

“Do you want to break the balance?”

At the mocking question, Spolia’s mouth closed.

“Do you think your wish is earnest?”

“…”

“More than anyone else’s?”

Both gazes lingered in the air.

At the silence that was like affirmation, Lord Caleph’s hand that had been oppressing Spolia slowly fell away.

He smiled faintly.

Without any selfish intent, purely.

“Then die for Daisy, Spolia.”

…Death?

“If you desire to keep her by your side forever, sacrifice your life to save her. That faith and action will… bring the reward you earnestly desired.”

Skuld felt slight confusion.

Were those words mockery directed at Spolia, or were they the condition for surpassing the final realm Lord Caleph had experienced, the fifth wall?

Lord Caleph remained near the earth where she lay, as if unable to face Daisy’s face, or rather, her countenance with eyes gently closed. His eyes held deep despair.

“Just do that instead. Yes, that would be better… I don’t need eternity, and you don’t have to stay by my side for life, if only you would just return…”

How long did that lengthy silence settle?

“I don’t understand, Kalerpa.”

Spolia murmured lowly and let out a hollow laugh with a voice filled with disbelief and emptiness.

“I can’t understand at all.”

Soon after, Spolia disappeared.

Yes, Spolia vanished.

He disappeared without a trace, leaving only the disheveled ruins. Skuld, who breathed a sigh of relief, checked Daisy’s condition.

…But I.

What was reflected in my eyes wasn’t Spolia who had disappeared without anyone knowing, nor the empty site.

Lu standing alone as if frozen with a melancholy face.

Lu with an abandoned expression, unable to move his lips even once.

Lu’s lonely expression couldn’t be erased from my mind at all.

For far too long.

* * *

Emerging from Skuld’s memory was my own will, as I could no longer bear to watch Lu standing there blankly.

At the right moment, Urdr also seemed to have finished his business, gathering his tools and quietly nodding.

“Hmm, so that’s what it was… I wondered what the circumstances were when Spolia broke his promise and attacked Lord Caleph.”

I sat down weakly and reflected on the scene that had passed like a hallucination.

If you truly desire it, accept death.

Though Spolia left because he couldn’t trust Lu’s words, for me who directly experienced that process, it could only be accepted as pure truth.

I recalled the expression “desire” that Lu had habitually emphasized at some point.

Now I understand the reason.

For him, desire was love itself.

Lu wanted me to truly desire him, willingly experience death, and share true eternity together.

‘Did Lu think my feelings were insufficient?’

Or perhaps he thought love that wasn’t eternal was meaningless.

Maybe he was afraid that I, having awakened the power of enlightenment, would be unable to maintain balance and leave this land first?

No, that must have been it. Wasn’t I also wandering around the entire continent under the pretext of finding Lu?

But the Lu I encountered in Skuld’s memory looked the most precarious among all the appearances of him I’d seen, and that point bothered me more than anything.

‘Really now. You became a perfect god, didn’t you? Then you should have more faith and wait patiently… Getting anxious like a human. Though I suppose it did take me quite a long time to return…’

Still, there’s only one task remaining now.

Slowly rising from the chair, I asked Urdr.

“Where is Lu?”

Urdr, who had been looking at me with contemplative eyes, quietly parted his lips.

“You probably know more about Lord Caleph than we do now… So to state just the conclusion.”

“Yes.”

“He left for the Eastern Continent to find a way to save you. It’s already been 4 years since then.”

“….”

“What will you do, Daisy? Will you wait for him? Or….”

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